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| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Author | Bill Jones |
| Language | English |
| Book Subtitle | 1408853436 |
| Book Description | Winner of the Outstanding Sports Writing Award, Cross British Sports Book Awards 2015 Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. One winter's night in 1976, over 20 million people in Britain watched John Curry skate to Olympic glory on an ice rink in Austria. Many millions more watched around the world. Overnight he became one of the most famous men on the planet. He was awarded the OBE. He was chosen as BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Curry had changed ice skating from marginal sport to high art. And yet the man was - and would always remain - an absolute mystery to a world that had been dazzled by his gift. Surely, men's skating was supposed to be Cossack-muscular, not sensual and ambiguous like this. Curry himself was an often-tortured man of labyrinthine complexity. For the first time, Alone untangles the extraordinary web of his toxic, troubled, brilliant - and short - life. It is a story of childhood nightmares, furious ambition, sporting genius, lifelong rivalries, homophobia, Cold War politics, financial ruin and deep personal tragedy. Alone reveals the restless, impatient, often dark soul of a man whose words could lacerate, whose skating invariably moved audiences to tears, and who - after succumbing to AIDS, as so many of his fellow artists and friends did - died of a heart attack aged just 44. |
| Editorial Review | A terrific story - a comic strip hero made flesh, with all the human complications that entails * Daily Mail on The Ghost Runner * Bill Jones used to make documentaries, and he retains that discipline's eye for telling details and evocative shots * The Times on the Ghostrunner * A fantastic story of the underdog * Metro on The Ghost Runner * |
| About the Author | Bill has spent most of his working life making award-winning international documentaries with Granada Television in Manchester. In 2011, his first book The Ghost Runner - a biography of John Tarrant - was published to widespread critical acclaim. It was shortlisted for the William Hill Sport Book of the Year, and won the 'Best New Writer' category at the British Sports Book Awards. He lives in the North of England. |
| Publication Date | 31-Jul-14 |
| Number of Pages | 352 |
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