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Alone The Triumph and Tragedy of John Curry

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Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2014.

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.

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ISBN: 9781408853566
Publication date: 4th June 2015
Author: Bill Jones
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Primary Genre Biographies & Autobiographies
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