A Handful of Summers
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The hilarious classic memoir of the international tennis circuit."A Handful of Summers" is a delightfully uninhibited insiders account of tennis on the international circuit in the fifties and sixties -- both on and off court -- in the glory days of Fred Perry Roy Emerson and Virginia Wade.Forbes begins with his childhood on a farm in South Africa where he learned to play tennis on a gravel court. His game takes him to Europe as a South African Davis Cup player and finally to Wimbledon. Along the way he cavorts with extraordinary characters among the world-class players including a young Billy Jean King and Rod Laver -- and their tales and his shine throughout this irresistibly witty memoir. A cult classic among tennis aficionados when it was first published in the United States it is a current bestseller in South Africa.
