Famepunk: 1987 US Open

By Liz Mackie

Run away. Be Great. Get the best Education.FAMEPUNK is a novel that takes place in a fictional version of women's professional tennis history. The story opens with US Open 1987. When an unknown qualifier from Brooklyn topples a tournament favorite in a second round night match, veteran sports writer Ellen Nagoya finds herself on the dangerous trail of the year's biggest-and most mysterious-story in sports. Meanwhile, as brash, big-tipping, yellow-eyed teenager Emma Jasohn makes her more and more outrageous way to a title showdown with the great Freya, who knows everything, they're joined on the world stage by an international cast of characters-including: Amanda McKinley...whose two-fisted backhand made her America's sweetheart, but whose back has done her wrong;Ilya Kasimov...talent recruit;Maria Helm...whose daughter the Wimbledon champion is turning out to be a disappointment; Shanaya Greene...the Ice House Princess of Coney Island whose tennis scholarship at Stanford University is on the line;And Z...whose daughter Theodosia is going to set the tennis world on fire-next year, when she turns twelve.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1463591985
• ISBN13: 9781463591984
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 5.0"