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005    20170901113606.0 
008    170206s2017    nyu    e      000 1 eng   
010      2017000907 
020    9781250114808 (hardback) 
040    DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dNjBwBT|dUtOrBLW 
042    pcc 
092    |fF|aBRUNT 
100 1  Brunt, Douglas,|eauthor. 
245 10 Trophy son /|cDouglas Brunt. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bSt. Martin's Press,|c2017. 
300    278 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    Private lessons. Professional coaches. Specialized camps 
       for sports, math, music, and other fields. Today’s 
       children are pushed to achieve excellence—or else. But at 
       what cost? New York Times bestselling author Douglas 
       Brunt’s third novel, Trophy Son, tells the story of a 
       tennis prodigy, from young childhood to the finals of the 
       US Open, Wimbledon, and other tournaments around the 
       world.  Growing up in the wealthy suburbs of Philadelphia,
       Anton Stratis is groomed to be one thing only: the #1 
       tennis player in the world. Trained relentlessly by his 
       obsessive father, a former athlete who plans every minute 
       of his son’s life, Anton both aspires to greatness and 
       resents its all-consuming demands. Lonely and 
       isolated—removed from school and socialization to focus on
       tennis—Anton explodes from nowhere onto the professional 
       scene and soon becomes one of the top-ranked players in 
       the world, with a coach, a trainer, and an entourage.  But
       as Anton struggles to find a balance between stardom and 
       family, he begins to make compromises—first with himself, 
       then with his health, and finally with the rules of tennis,
       a mix that will threaten to destroy everything he has 
       worked for. Trophy Son offers an inside look at the 
       dangers of extraordinary pressure to achieve, whether in 
       sports or any field, through the eyes of a young man 
       defying his parents’ ambitions as he seeks a life of his 
       own. 
650  0 Fathers and sons|vFiction. 
650  0 Parent and child|vFiction. 
650  0 Athletes|vFiction. 
650  0 Tennis stories|vFiction. 
650  0 Tennis players|vFiction. 
655  0 Sports stories. 
655  7 Domestic fiction.|2lcgft