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Alone: The Triumph and Tragedy of John Curry by Bill Jones (Paperback, 2015)
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Curry himself was an often-tortured man of labyrinthine complexity. It is a story of childhood nightmares, furious ambition, sporting genius, lifelong rivalries, homophobia, Cold War politics, financial ruin and deep personal tragedy.
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The previously-untold story of the life and tragic early death of John Curry, one of the most famous ice skaters in history. The book that inspired new film The Ice King, the story of John Curry's life. One winter's night in 1976, over 20 million people in Britain watched John Curry skate to Olympic gold 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 an OBE. He was chosen as BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Curry changed ice skating from marginal sport to high art. And yet the man was a 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 a complex, tortured man. 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. So much more than a sports biography, 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-139781408853566
eBay Product ID (ePID)213104342
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Book TitleAlone: the Triumph and Tragedy of John Curry
AuthorBill Jones
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
GenreBiographies & True Stories, Sports
Number of Pages352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width129mm
Item Weight308g
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Title_AuthorBill Jones
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 23 Jan, 2019
John curry
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