Reviews

Days of Grace begins with an understandably annoyed Ashe holding a TV press conference to preempt a newspaper report that he has been stricken with the AIDS virus. After a diatribe against the invasion of his privacy, Ashe relates how he managed to launch a tennis career that led him to international fame and fortune while others fought for equality. The late tennis star then takes up the matter of apartheid in South Africa. All the autobiographical observations of his career are, like his social comments (e.g., being black is worse than having AIDS), intelligently thought out. Finally, the fatherly words of advice he hopes daughter Camera will read and follow after his death give this audiobook an appeal to a wide audience. Actor Joe Morton provides a fine narration.-- James Dudley, Copiague, N.Y.