Open#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Far more than a superb memoir about the highest levels of professional tennis, Open is the engrossing story of a remarkable life. • "Agassi’s memoir is just as entrancing as his tennis game.” —Time “Honest in a way that such books seldom are.” —The New York Times Andre Agassi had his life mapped out for him before he left the crib. Groomed to be a tennis champion by his moody and demanding father, by the age of twenty-two Agassi had won the first of his eight grand slams and achieved wealth, celebrity, and the game’s highest honors. But as he reveals in this searching autobiography, off the court he was often unhappy and confused, unfulfilled by his great achievements in a sport he had come to resent. Agassi writes candidly about his early success and his uncomfortable relationship with fame, his marriage to Brooke Shields, his growing interest in philanthropy, and—described in haunting, point-by-point detail—the highs and lows of his celebrated career. |
Contents
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Section 2 | 27 |
Section 3 | 39 |
Section 4 | 54 |
Section 5 | 62 |
Section 6 | 73 |
Section 7 | 81 |
Section 8 | 86 |
Section 21 | 228 |
Section 22 | 241 |
Section 23 | 253 |
Section 24 | 263 |
Section 25 | 281 |
Section 26 | 305 |
Section 27 | 306 |
Section 28 | 319 |
Section 9 | 96 |
Section 10 | 100 |
Section 11 | 112 |
Section 12 | 133 |
Section 13 | 141 |
Section 14 | 150 |
Section 15 | 157 |
Section 16 | 167 |
Section 17 | 182 |
Section 18 | 197 |
Section 19 | 204 |
Section 20 | 218 |
Section 29 | 325 |
Section 30 | 339 |
Section 31 | 340 |
Section 32 | 347 |
Section 33 | 348 |
Section 34 | 358 |
Section 35 | 371 |
Section 36 | 379 |
Section 37 | 384 |
Section 38 | 387 |
Section 39 | 391 |
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