My Life with Lew

Hoad, Jenny; Pollard, Jack

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Langue : anglais

Edité par HarperCollinsPublishers PTY Limited, 2003

0732270677 / 9780732270674

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[Author], [Publisher]. NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title. Author: Jack Pollard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 258 An intimate biography of one of Australia?tennis heroes. Lew Hoad was an amazing talent who won the men?singles at Wimbledon twice, a French Open title, three Wimbledon doubles trophies and seventeen of his nineteen Davis Cup matches. Jennie Staley was a promising young tennis player who won the Victorian schoolgirl singles when she was thirteen. In 1951, Jennie and Lew were both seventeen years old. they met at a tennis tournament and Jennie remembers being attracted to Lew from the moment she saw him. In My Life with Lew Jennie tells of the amazing life that she and Lew shared. they travelled the world and called Sean Connery and Richard Burton friends. When you flick through the Hoad family photo album you are likely to see their beloved Labrador on one page and Marlene Dietrich on another. Lew and Jennie followed a dream from Australia to Spain to find the perfect place to create a tennis ranch. Here they turned a run-down farmhouse into the Lew Hoad Campo de tennis.But Lew and Jennie?story isn?a fairytale. they didn?live happily ever after. Forty-two years after they had met - after raising a family and building up their business together - Lew was diagnosed with cancer. He was 59 years old when he died. this story is about one of the world?greatest tennis players. It is a biography and a travelogue. But most of all it is a love story.…

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Titre
My Life with Lew
Auteur
Hoad, Jenny; Pollard, Jack
Éditeur
HarperCollinsPublishers PTY Limited
Année de publication
2003
Type de livre
Paperback
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0732270677
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780732270674

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