The Independent - London, April 22nd, 2002
LIKE A cunningly spun serve, this book comes towards you and then swerves off in a completely unexpected direction. It is subtitled Ping- Pong and The Art of Staying Alive and, among many other things, does indeed address the question of whether playing ping-pong - the alternative name for table tennis that evokes the repetitive resonance at the game's heart - can prolong someone's life. The someone in question here is the author, for whom ping-pong, as played in the sweaty off-street halls of New York City and Paris, has been a consuming passion for the past 50 years. When he pleads on the p...
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