![]() ![]() Open in 2006.Īgassi reads literary memoirs during a Grand Slam? Contradictions abound in the guy: He's a pyromaniac rebel who loves Celine Dion, he hate tennis but hates losing more - and it is the struggle to alternately contain and express contradiction that makes his picaresque journey so tormented, so compelling, and at last so resolutely and triumphantly un-idiotic. Agassi chose his ghost writer after reading Moehringer's memoir, Moehringer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. What kind of idiot voluntarily confesses to wearing a toupee and lying about doing drugs? The kind of idiot, I would respond, who wants to shamelessly stage-manage free publicity for his autobiography - an autobiography for which he's received five million bucks and an autobiography that he didn't technically, actually write. ![]() But, you say, he didn't have to come clean. ![]()
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