Now, in his first contemporary novel, Bock narrows his scope to more intimate upheavals: sibling rivalry, lost love and midlife crisis.
It was simply the intensely seething rivalry between two intimate neighbors, carried on in a sport that, especially then, found this kind of insane behavior colorful and amusing.
From the distant destruction of a dysfunctional family riven with rivalry to an intimate portrait of a clan that, despite its faults, you can't help but want to join.
This would surely count as the most intimate moment in a tennis rivalry ever captured on film, were it not for the trophy presentation following the final of the Australian Open on Feb. 1, 2009, not long after Rafael Nadal beat Roger Federer in still another of those storied five-set matches.
The two are not especially intimate, and some have compared their supposed rivalry to that of Marie Taglioni and Fanny Elssler at the Paris Opera Ballet in the 1830s.
As we've intimated, it's been a strange, singular rivalry.
She focuses on a range of topics, from intimate articulations of sexual desire, gender identity, ambition, and rivalry to larger issues brought on by rapid historical and economic change.
The move to the evening adds a new dimension to the Classic, and to the personal rivalry between Crosby and Ovechkin, which fans have been getting an intimate look at through HBO's "24/7" series.
In the months following that "bad luck", his correspondence is filled with analysis of rivalries between Spain and France (the politician in him never slept), but he also offers more intimate glimpses into his life.
