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Copyright

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      First published in the USA in 2009 by Alfred A. Knopf

      This edition published in 2009 by HarperCollinsPublishers

      © 2009 AKA Publishing LLC

      Andre Agassi asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN: 9780007281428

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       Dedication

       For Stefanie, Jaden, and Jaz

       Epigraph

       One cannot always tell what it is that keeps us shut in, confines us, seems to bury us, but still one feels certain barriers, certain gates, certain walls. Is all this imagination, fantasy? I do not think so. And then one asks: My God! Is it for long, is it for ever, is it for eternity? Do you know what frees one from this captivity? It is very deep serious affection. Being friends, being brothers, love, that is what opens the prison by supreme power, by some magic force.

      —Vincent van Gogh, letter to his brother, July 1880

      Contents

       Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

The End

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Chapter 23

       Chapter 24

       Chapter 25

       Chapter 26

       Chapter 27

       Chapter 28

       Chapter 29

       The Beginning

       Acknowledgments

       About the Author

       About the Publisher