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a Stunning Memoir By One Of The World's Most Beloved Athletes--a Nuanced Self-portrait, An Intensely Candid Account Of A Remarkable Life, And A Thrilling Inside View Of The Pro Tennis Tour. from The Hardcover Edition. The Barnes & Noble Review Before Reading A Single Page Of Andre Agassi's Autobiography, open, I Determined To Evaluate It According To The Standards Established In A Lovely Little Essay Called How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart, By David Foster Wallace. Austin Was A Tennis Star In The 1970s Whose Memoir Wallace, An Exuberant Observer Of The Game, Agreed To Review For A Newspaper In 1994. He Had High Hopes, Because On The Court Austin Was Prodigious, Beautiful, And Inspiring -- A True Artist Who Displayed A Grace That For Most Of Us Remains Abstract And Immanent. But He Was Disappointed To Find That Her Memoir Was Terrible: Insipid, Cliché-ridden, And Almost Completely Lacking In Insight, Or Even Compound Sentences.