{"product_id":"book-28y6","title":"The Fantastic Confabulations of an Ageing Tennis Player","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Fantastic Confabulations of an Ageing Tennis Player by Nick Owen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNarrated by Samuel James, Claire Wyatt, and Helen Lloyd.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduced by Raconteurs Audio.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginal tennis player drawings by Paul Warren\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAudiobook cover by Jem Butcher.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy turns hilarious, unsettling, and unexpectedly tender, this final volume of the Tennis Player Confessions series that began at the Wimbledon tournament comes finally to Flushing Meadows, where the last match is played not with a racket, but with the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten largely as a stage-script, the text shifts into meta-cinema, opening with a drone shot sweeping from the River Mersey to a hospice ward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs reality blurs into dreams, surveillance drones hum through the corridors and Andy is forced to confront what age means in a world that so easily discards its heroes. Can love loyalty and memory stage a comeback?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tone is tender, darkly comic, and haunted by questions of authorship: has Lord Andrew ever truly existed outside his own imagination? His \"confabulations\" - the blending of memory and fantasy common to dementia - become both diagnosis and metaphor for the entire series of books. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67386204848432,"sku":"BD28y6","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-28y6","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}