Open: An Autobiography (Documents)

by Andre Agassi

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Far more than a superb memoir about the highest levels of professional tennis, Open is the engrossing story of a remarkable life.
 
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.

• ISBN10: 0307388409
• ISBN13: 9780307388407
• Publish Date: 10 August 2010 (first published 1 January 2009)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Imprint: Random House Inc
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 400
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780307388407

Reviews

[remo]

Tengo una opinión dividida. Por un lado, la autobiografía de Agassi (que no es una autobiografía porque contrató a un premio Pulitzer para escribir el libro a partir de un montón de conversaciones) es entretenida, cuenta muchas cosas del mundillo y se sigue con interés. Por otro, me parece un ejercicio de autoexculpación de principio a fin. Nunca hice nada malo. Todo fueron confusiones y desmanes de la prensa. Construí un colegio paa niños desfavorecidos. Como si estuviera ante un juez. Excusatio non petita... Me encanta la rivalidad con Becker y la pseudorrivalidad con Sampras. Y cómo al final de su carrera se encuentra con Federer y Nadal y reconoce su absoluta inferioridad. Un libro interesante que no estará en mi top nunca pero que puede molar a quien tenga interés por el deporte y el personaje. El primer capítulo, que es aparentemente su último partido en activo, es potentísimo.