Alone: The Triumph and Tragedy of John Curry

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Alone: The Triumph and Tragedy of John Curry

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 â€“ and would always remain â€“ 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 â€“ and short â€“ 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 â€“ after succumbing to AIDS, as so many of his fellow artists and friends did â€“ died of a heart attack aged just 44.

Country	USA
Author	Bill Jones
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9781408853443
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Bloomsbury Sport
Manufacturer	Bloomsbury Sport
NumberOfPages	353
PublicationDate	2014-07-31
Publisher	Bloomsbury Sport
ReleaseDate	2014-07-31
Studio	Bloomsbury Sport

Alone: The Triumph and Tragedy of John Curry

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