Andre Agassi played tennis professionally from 1986 to
2006. Often ranked number one, he captured eight Grand Slam singles
championships. Founder of the Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation,
he has raised more than $85 million for the Andre Agassi College
Preparatory Academy for underprivileged children in Las Vegas,
where he lives with his wife, Stefanie Graf, and their two
children.
Visit the author's website: www.agassifoundation.org
A New York Times Notable Book and a Forbes, San Francisco
Chronicle, and Washington Post Best Book of the Year
“Agassi may have just penned one of the best sports autobiographies
of all time. Check—it’s one of the better memoirs out there,
period. . . . An unvarnished, at times inspiring story [told] in an
arresting, muscular style. . . . Agassi’s memoir is just as
entrancing as his tennis game.”
—Time
“Fascinating. . . . Inspiring. . . . Open describes Agassi’s
personal odyssey with brio and unvarnished candor. . . . [Agassi’s]
career-comeback tale is inspiring but even more so is another Open
storyline. It could be called: The punk grows up. . . .
Countless athletes start charitable foundations, but frequently the
organizations are just tax shelters or PR stunts. For Agassi
helping others has instead become his life’s calling. . . . Open is
a superb memoir, but it hardly closes the books on an extraordinary
life.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“Honest in a way that such books seldom are. . . . An uncommonly
well-written sports memoir. . . . Bracingly devoid of triumphalist
homily, Agassi’s is one of the most passionately anti-sports books
ever written by a superstar athlete.”
—The New York Times
“Not your typical jock-autobio fare. This literate and absorbing
book is, as the title baldly states, Agassi’s confessional, a
wrenching chronicle of his lifelong search for identity and
serenity, on and off the court.”
—Los Angeles Times
“The writing here is exceptional. It is can’t-put-down good.”
—Sports Illustrated
“An honest, substantive, insightful autobiography. . . . The bulk
of this extraordinary book vividly recounts a lost childhood, a
Dickensian adolescence, and a chaotic struggle in adulthood to
establish an identity. . . . While not without excitement, Agassi’s
comeback to No. 1 is less uplifting than his sheer survival, his
emotional resilience, and his good humor in the face of the
luckless cards he was often dealt.”
—The Washington Post
“The most revealing, literate, and toes-stompingly honest sports
autobiography in history”
—Rick Reilly, ESPN
“Much more than a drug confession—Agassi weaves a fascinating tale
of professional tennis and personal adversity. . . . His tale shows
that success is measured both on and off the court.”
—New York Post
“Not only has Agassi bared his soul like few professional athletes
ever have, he’s done it with a flair and force that most
professional writers can’t even pull off.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“[A] heartfelt memoir . . . Agassi’s style is open, all right, and
his book, like so many of his tennis games, is a clear winner.”
—O, The Oprah Magazine
“Hard-won self-knowledge irradiates almost every page of Open. . .
. Not just a first-rate sports memoir but a genuine bildungsroman,
darkly funny yet also anguished and soulful. It confirms what
Agassi’s admirers sensed from the outset, that this showboat . . .
was not clamoring for attention but rather conducting a struggle to
wrest some semblance of selfhood from the sport that threatened to
devour him.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“A riveting and reflective memoir by a man who rose to the top of
his sport—despite hating it.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Celebrity tell-alls have rarely been this honest and this
interesting.”
—Baltimore Sun
“A vivid portrait of the internal battle faced in some measure by
every athlete.”
—Bloomberg News
“Articulate. . . . Expertly rendered.”
—The Morning News (Boston)
“Refreshingly candid. . . . This lively, revealing, and
entertaining book is certain to roil the tennis world and make a
big splash beyond.”
—Publishers Weekly
A New York Times Notable Book and a Forbes, San Francisco
Chronicle, and Washington Post Best Book of the Year
"Agassi may have just penned one of the best sports autobiographies
of all time. Check-it's one of the better memoirs out there,
period. . . . An unvarnished, at times inspiring story [told] in an
arresting, muscular style. . . . Agassi's memoir is just as
entrancing as his tennis game."
-Time
"Fascinating. . . . Inspiring. . . . Open describes Agassi's
personal odyssey with brio and unvarnished candor. . . . [Agassi's]
career-comeback tale is inspiring but even more so is another
Open storyline. It could be called: The punk grows up. . . .
Countless athletes start charitable foundations, but frequently the
organizations are just tax shelters or PR stunts. For Agassi
helping others has instead become his life's calling. . . .
Open is a superb memoir, but it hardly closes the books on
an extraordinary life."
-The Wall Street Journal
"Honest in a way that such books seldom are. . . . An uncommonly
well-written sports memoir. . . . Bracingly devoid of triumphalist
homily, Agassi's is one of the most passionately anti-sports books
ever written by a superstar athlete."
-The New York Times
"Not your typical jock-autobio fare. This literate and absorbing
book is, as the title baldly states, Agassi's confessional, a
wrenching chronicle of his lifelong search for identity and
serenity, on and off the court."
-Los Angeles Times
"The writing here is exceptional. It is can't-put-down good."
-Sports Illustrated
"An honest, substantive, insightful autobiography. . . . The bulk
of this extraordinary book vividly recounts a lost childhood, a
Dickensian adolescence, and a chaotic struggle in adulthood to
establish an identity. . . . While not without excitement, Agassi's
comeback to No. 1 is less uplifting than his sheer survival, his
emotional resilience, and his good humor in the face of the
luckless cards he was often dealt."
-The Washington Post
"The most revealing, literate, and toes-stompingly honest sports
autobiography in history"
-Rick Reilly, ESPN
"Much more than a drug confession-Agassi weaves a fascinating tale
of professional tennis and personal adversity. . . . His tale shows
that success is measured both on and off the court."
-New York Post
"Not only has Agassi bared his soul like few professional athletes
ever have, he's done it with a flair and force that most
professional writers can't even pull off."
-Entertainment Weekly
"[A] heartfelt memoir . . . Agassi's style is open, all right, and
his book, like so many of his tennis games, is a clear winner."
-O, The Oprah Magazine
"Hard-won self-knowledge irradiates almost every page of
Open. . . . Not just a first-rate sports memoir but a
genuine bildungsroman, darkly funny yet also anguished and soulful.
It confirms what Agassi's admirers sensed from the outset, that
this showboat . . . was not clamoring for attention but rather
conducting a struggle to wrest some semblance of selfhood from the
sport that threatened to devour him."
-The New York Times Book Review
"A riveting and reflective memoir by a man who rose to the top of
his sport-despite hating it."
-San Francisco Chronicle
"Celebrity tell-alls have rarely been this honest and this
interesting."
-Baltimore Sun
"A vivid portrait of the internal battle faced in some measure by
every athlete."
-Bloomberg News
"Articulate. . . . Expertly rendered."
-The Morning News (Boston)
"Refreshingly candid. . . . This lively, revealing, and
entertaining book is certain to roil the tennis world and make a
big splash beyond."
-Publishers Weekly
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