Days of Grace: A Memoir

By Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad

Book Overview

"Touching and courageous...All of it--the man, the life, the book--is rare and beautiful." COSMOPOLITAN DAYS 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.... AN ALTERNATE SELECTION OF THE BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679423966
• ISBN13: 9780679423966
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Days of Grace was filled with great examples of figurative...

Days of Grace was filled with great examples of figurative language, dialogue, and sensory images through the narrative of Arthur Ashe of his life living with AIDS. I read this book on a whim for an english narrative project. It had everything I needed and more. Despite only using the book for a project, the book has very good pacing allowing you to keep focused and interested. Because of the excellent use of literary elements,...

Like gold tested by fire

Although I never met Arthur Ashe in person, what a great resource he leaves us with this autobiography. Arthur was a man of faith, morals, business, intellect and manners. Oh yeah, he was also one heckuva tennis player. My personal enduring memory of Arthur came not in the form of his Wimbledon upset of Jimmy Connors, but rather by a subsequent televised loss some years later to John McEnroe. It would be a complete understatement...

Simply Beautiful

`Days of Grace' is possibly the most moving biography, if not book, I have ever read, by a man whose courage, determination and decency towards fellow man have left me in awe. The book contains moments of humour, of deep sadness and of joy, and throughout there is a vein of truthfulness that is unparalleled in anything I have ever read. The experiences that Ashe had in his life were so many and so varied, from the highs of...

A MAN OF DIGNITY AND GRACE

I met this gentleman briefly. We were travelling on "Southern Airlines" between Atlanta and Birmingham. Both the man and the airline are gone. He was gracious, a man of dignity. As his memoir unfolds one can't help but be inspired by his example of courage, discipline and responsibility. Many knew him as a great tennis champion, but the book reveals the man, a father, a husband, a social activist, a religious spiritual...

very Powerful

Arthur Ashe was a class act period.the same can be said of his wife as well.the Brother was very Intelligent and well-spoken and a great tennis player by the way.the thing that really stood out in this book to me was the fact when he said that he could deal with AIDS better than Racism.after reading that part in the book you have to wonder has this country come far at all? MR.Ashe was a well off Man and he was still dealing...