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Man on Wire : By Evoking His Youthful Passion for the World Trade Center, Petit
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- ISBN
- 9780865476516
- Book Title
- Man on Wire : By Evoking His Youthful Passion for the World Trade Center, Petit Brings the Towers' Awesomeness Back to Life
- Item Length
- 10.9 in
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation, History, Performing Arts
- Topic
- United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Cultural Heritage, General, Gymnastics
- Item Width
- 8.5 in
- Item Weight
- 43 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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An artist of the air re-creates his six-year plot to pull off an act of incomparable beauty and imagination One late-summer day, a feat of unimaginable audacity was perpetrated on the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The year was 1974. A hundred thousand people gathered on the ground to watch in awe as twenty-four-year-old high wire artist Philippe Petit made eight crossings between the all-but-completed towers, a quarter mile above the earth, over the course of nearly an hour. Petit's achievement made headlines around the world. Yet few who saw or heard about it realized that it was the fulfillment of a dream he had nurtured for six years, rekindling it each time it was in danger of expiring. His accomplices were a motley crew of foreigners and Americans, who under Petit's direction had conpired, connived, labored, argued, rehearsed, and improvised to make possible an act of unsurpassed aerial artistry. In this visually and verbally stunning book, Petit tells for the first time the dramatic story of this history-making walk, from conception and clandestine planning to the performance and its aftermath. The account draws on Petit's journals, which capture everything from his budgets to his strategies for rigging a high wire in the dead of night between two of the most secure towers in the world. It is animated by photographs taken by two of Petit's collaborators, and by his own wonderfully evocative sketches and unquenchable humor.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0865476519
ISBN-13
9780865476516
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2289009
Product Key Features
Book Title
Man on Wire : By Evoking His Youthful Passion for the World Trade Center, Petit Brings the Towers' Awesomeness Back to Life
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Cultural Heritage, General, Gymnastics
Publication Year
2002
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation, History, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
10.9 in
Item Width
8.5 in
Item Weight
43 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Gv550.2.P47a3 2002
Reviews
"It was Philippe Petit who connected the twin towers of the World Trade Center, in an act of beauty and ecstasy. Now that an act of terror has destroyed them both, his book resurrects and reunites them, in sheer defiance of gravity." --Werner Herzog "Philippe Petit planned and executed the perfect crime by walking on a high wire between the twin towers, and the whole world loved him for doing it." --Guy F. Tozzoli, President, World Trade Centers Association "One year after the nightmares of September 11, how good to remember that morning in 1974 when a young man gave New York a gift of astonishing, indelible beauty. How good that he has sat down now to give us this lively and often heart-stopping account of how he achieved his masterpiece." --Paul Auster "Every time I watch Philippe Petit perform, my heart beats a mile a minute, and I wonder, 'What is going through his mind and heart up there?' Now I know. This book is as awe-inspiring as are his accomplishments on the wire." --Milos Forman "An incredibly audacious magical tale of the impossible, To Reach the Clouds soars, thanks to Petit's absolute agility with language." --Debra Winger "The towers themselves were death-defying, a document in steel of human aspiration, and Petit's wire walk dotted their two i's magnificently." --Anthony Brandt, National Geographuc Adventure
Copyright Date
2002
Lccn
2002-023520
Dewey Decimal
791.3/4092 B
Dewey Edition
22
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