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In this tour de force, professional Mexican tennis player Cesar-Agosto Villasenor M., ranked 224th in the world, makes his first trip to the United States. Travelling overland from Canada to Ensenada, Mexico, Agosto journeys into the heart of remote America: He hobnobs with the upper-crust, becomes involved with the underworld; and ruminates on his drop shot...The Racquet is a memorable story by one of this century's literary masters.