Wimbledon 1996: tennis journeyman Richard Blanco rides a late-career surge into the quarterfinals—and a million-dollar endorsement—while secretly hearing voices again. His dead punk-rock friend Luke Scream returns to taunt his scarred psyche, and Blanco’s “mature” tennis collides with reckless choices, tangled affairs, and escalating absurdity across London, L.A., and New York. Back at his Florida academy, a charismatic rookie threatens to steal his mojo—and unravel him entirely.

A compellingly dysfunctional tennis-playing protagonist

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