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Days of Grace Mass market paperbound - 1994

by Arthur Ashe; Arnold Rampersad

An inspiring memoir by the late Arthur Ashe--tennis champion, social activist, AIDS victim, man of courage and grace. Ashe tells about the athlete's life; tennis court contemporaries such as Connors, McEnroe, and Navratilova; his passionate devotion to his wife and daughter; the places he has been; people he has known; and more. Photos.


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IF ONE'S REPUTATION is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.

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"Touching and courageous...All of it--the man, the life, the book--is rare and beautiful."
COSMOPOLITANDAYS OF GRACE is an inspiring memoir of a remarkable man who was the true embodiment of courage, elegance, and the spirit to fight: Arthur Ashe--tennis champion, social activist, and person with AIDS. Frank, revealing, touching--DAYS OF GRACE is the story of a man felled to soon. It remains as his legacy to us all....
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  • Title Days of Grace
  • Author Arthur Ashe; Arnold Rampersad
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition mass market
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ballantine Books, New York
  • Date May 1, 1994
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780345386816 / 0345386817
  • Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.86 x 4.24 x 1.01 in (17.42 x 10.77 x 2.57 cm)
  • Reading level 1160
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects AIDS (Disease) - Patients - United States, Tennis players - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92054919
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 05/23/1994, Page 0

About the author

Arthur Ashe (1943-1993) was a tennis champion, AIDS activist, and tireless crusader for racial and social justice. He was inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame in 1985 and awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1993. Arnold Rampersad, the Sarah Hart Kimball Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Stanford University, has also taught at Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers Universities. His books include The Life of Langston Hughes (two volumes); biographies of W. E. B. Du Bois, Jackie Robinson, and Ralph Ellison; and, with Arthur Ashe, Days of Grace: A Memoir. Among his numerous awards and honors are a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 1991 and the National Humanities Medal, presented at the White House in 2011.
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