Alone: The Triumph and Tragedy of John Curry

Author: Jones, BillBrand: imustiEdition: ReprintBinding: PaperbackNumber Of Pages: 352Release Date: 08-09-2015Part Number: 9781408853566Details: Short-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. One winter's night in 1976, millions of people all over the world watched John Curry skate to Olympic glory on an ice rink in Austria. Overnight he became one of the most famous men on the planet and changed ice-skating from marginal sport to high art. Surely, men's skating was supposed to be Cossack-muscular, not sensual and ambiguous like this. And yet the man was--and would always remain--an absolute mystery to a world that was dazzled by his gift. 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 person