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Editorial Reviews of Open: An Autobiography“Insightful [and] exceedingly well-written . . . [Open] has the cadence and plotting of a good novel . . . The raw energy and emotion throughout are pure Agassi.”
-Newsday Top 10 Books of 2009
“Surprisingly
candid . . . The baseline bad boy serves up his harrowing anecdotes
with the same force he put behind every on-court ace.”
-Entertainment Weekly 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2009
“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 100 Notable Books of 2009
“Andre
Agassi’s memoir is just as entrancing as his tennis game . . . By
sharing an unvarnished, at times inspiring story in an arresting,
muscular style, 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.”
-Sean Gregory, Time
“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.”
-Sam Tanenhaus, The New York Times Book Review
“[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
“Open describes
[Agassi’s] personal odyssey with brio and unvarnished candor . . . His
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 students. For Mr. 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.”
-Jay Winik, The Wall Street Journal
“It’s
both astonishing and a pleasure to report that Andre Agassi . . . has
produced 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.”
-Michael Mewshaw, Washington Post
“Honest in a way that such books seldom are . . . An uncommonly well-written sports memoir.”
-Charles McGrath, The New York Times
“Probably the most candid sports autobiography ever written . . . A remarkably real, tell-it-like-it-is, record-breaking read.”
-Nancy Isenberg, The [Baton Rouge] Advocate
“Agassi
weaves a fascinating tale of professional tennis and personal adversity
. . . His tale shows that success is measured both on and off the
court.”
-Doree Shafrir, New York Post
“Refreshingly
candid . . . This lively, revealing, and entertaining book is certain
to roil the tennis world and make a big splash beyond.”
-Publishers Weekly
“Enigmatic
tennis great Agassi lays it all on the line . . . Agassi’s photographic
recall of pivotal matches evokes the raw intensity of watching them
from the stands. Lovers of the sport will also appreciate this window
into the mind of a champion . . . An ace of a tale about how one man
found his game.”
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