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Nastase (Break Point proves again that his world-class tennis background is fertile soil for popular fiction. Hungarian-born tennis star Istvan Horwat finds his increasingly younger court opponents more and more of a strain. The swinging bachelor life is becoming a bore, and he suffers from a recurrent nightmare of drowning. When his best friends die in a plane crash, leaving their 12-year-old daughter Natty orphaned, Istvan adopts the girl. Most of the book revolves around Natty's growing-up and Istvan's steady slippage in the seedings. In Natty's late teens, she emerges as a top tennis contender and, after some struggle, as a contender for Istvan's love. Following a short period of bliss, however, Istvan renounces herwhether gallantly or nervously, readers must decide. The rich, high-flying life of sports stars is interesting if a bit shallow, but Nastase knows this scene inside-out. He also knows how to keep readers turning pages, though the book would have benefited from a more credible ending.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
The "bad boy" of the international tennis courts in the 1970s is the author of this surprisingly good novelhis secondabout the romance between a temperamental former tennis champion and his adopted teenage daughter. Though rich in play-by-play action and at first glance a jet-set soap opera, the book succeeds best as a character study of a gifted player facing the sobering reality of aging at 35when he has barely become an adult. Nastase, known for his impish humor on the courts as well as his intractable disposition, takes himself a bit too seriously and misses a few opportunities to build suspense. But he nevertheless makes the reader care for protagonist Istvan Horwat and his rebellious ward. This smooth narrative would probably be a popular success even if the author weren't famous. Joyce Smothers, Monmouth Cty. Lib., Manalapan,
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