Days of Grace (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Arthur Ashe, Arnold Rampersad
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1943-1993
- Setting: Primarily the United States
- Principal Characters: Arthur Robert Ashe, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Camera
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Racism, Athletes, AIDS, Heart attack or disease, Geopolitics, Tennis, Viruses
- Locales: United States
Tennis champion, role model, black celebrity, heart patient, and AIDS victim, Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr., managed to record his third and final memoir with matchless integrity. Coauthor Arnold Rampersad, the distinguished biographer of Langston Hughes, helped to bring Ashe’s voice to the reader with great clarity. Arranged loosely by topic, the eleven chapters of Days of Grace focus not on the deterioration of Ashe’s body but rather on the evolution of his spirit. While typically reserved in tone, the book reveals Ashe’s deeply personal journey leading up to his death from...
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