Customer Reviews

Sudden Death

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

A more-than-likely realistic look at the female pro-tennis circuit from Martina's erstwhile lover, Rita Mae Brown. Includes an erotic lesbian encounter in a motel room between female tennis star, the dominant Carmen Semana, and her latest conquest, the submissive Bonnie Bishop.

This book, clearly about the author's time as Martina Navratilova's tennis tour spouse, manages to relive the time withoutjilted love bitterness (or even mentioning the tennis star). Very good description of the tennis circuit. Contains one of Brown's best ever scenes: the verbal battle between two friends (winner gets a Tiffany stick pin) to name the most brand names of movie theatre candy -- hilarious and uniqely Rita Mae Brown.

Great book about the pro women's tennis circuit of the1970s and 1980s. Yet the best scene in the whole book is about two women on the fringes of the circuit competing for a pin at Tiffaini's determined by who can recall the most candy brands of their movie experiences of the 1950s. I love this book.

Even though this book was terrible, it starred lesbians, and that's got to count for something. Exactly 2 stars.

This book is a "horrid example".

The author and Martina Navratilova were, for a time, a very public couple. Then they broke up. And Brown made the fatal error of writing a roman-à-clef. This is always a mistake. Getting revenge on your ex is death on good writing. It's a shame, because Brown is ordinarily an excellent writer.

You really have to love tennis or Rita Mae (or both) to stick with this one to the end. I am not a tennis fan so I skipped a lot of the play by play action. The story line was interesting though and if there had been less sports commentary and more interaction between the characters it would have been really great. Carmen is a spoiled brat and does not deserve the long suffering Harriett.