Overview
Serena Williams is an undisputed global sports celebrity. Ranked #12 on ESPNās 2018 World Fame 100 list of popular athletes, thirty-seven-year-old Serena Williams is the only female in the top 20, and sheās one of the highest paid athletes in the world. The face of womenās tennis for the past two decades, Serena is now waging battles on multiple frontsāagainst age, injuries, and opponents almost twenty years her junior, all while juggling her responsibilities as a new mom.
Seeing Serena is an in-depth chronicle of Serena Williamsā return to tennis after giving birth to her daughter, and an insightful cultural analysis of the most consequential female athlete of her time. Author Gerald Marzorati shadows her through her 2019 season, from Melbourne and the Australian Open, to Roland-Garros and Wimbledon, and on to the US Open as she seeks her 24th Grand Slam singles title. He writers about her tennis and her forays into fashion, investing, and developing her personal brand on social media.
Seeing Serena illuminates Williamsās singular status as the greatest womenās tennis player of all time andāin a moment when race and gender are the most talked-about topics in America and beyondāa pop icon like no other. Marzorati is on the scene, observing her matches, and talking to her, her coach, her competitors, and former greats who have witnessed her for years.
He observes her, listens to her, studies her, explores her roles in society and historyāsees Serena fully, in all the ways she has come to matter.
This book title, Seeing Serena, ISBN: 9781982127886, by Gerald Marzorati, published by Scribner (June 15, 2021) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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