Buy this book on-line BORROWS, BILL: : THE HURRICANE: The Turbulent Life & Times of Alex HigginsLONDON.ATLANTIC BOOKS,2002. ISBN 1903809916.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn.[Complete number line 9-1.] FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Subject's bright, crisp,clean,matt contemporary b/w portrait photographic illustrated dw/dj,with red+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.A small 1/5th" closed nick/tear to rear,lower edge of dw/dj,towards spine/backstrip's gutter's edge.Majority of the other negligible creasing is to top edges of dw/dj.Top edges slightly dust-soiled with minimal toning, fore-edges brighter and clean; contents bright, tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread apart from my collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain maroon endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn,x-xvpp+2-368pp [paginated] includes author's Preface, Acknowledgements,15 chapters,24pp subject's contemporary b/w autobiographical photographs in 3 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp80/1,pp176/7 and pp272/3 respectively,Notes and an Index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title with subject's b/w portrait photograph to it's verso,title page,a dedication,an epigraph (from Private Eye 27, April 1990.) and a Contents list/table.
'The Hurricane' is the dark and definitive biography of one of sport's most tortured souls.
Born on a council estate in Belfast,Alex Higgins left school at 15.
At 17,he won the Northern Ireland and All Ireland snooker championships,and turned professional when he was 20.In 1972,aged just 23,he was the youngest person ever to win the world snooker championship.When he repeated this achievement ten years later,in a final that pulsated with emotion,Higgins became the biggest box-office draw the game has ever known.
Higgins was a showman,gambler,comedian,bully, charmer and an alcoholic.His antics - and ferocious temper - were legendary.Dubbed the 'People's Champion',he was loved by millions.In 'The Hurricane',Bill Borrows traces Higgins' meteoric rise,from his working-class origins,to his discovery of his scintillating talent,his epic benders and the controversies that engulfed the final years of his career.
Bill Borrows reconstructs vividly the terrifying roller-coaster ride of Higgins' life. Outrageous,gripping and,ultimately wrenching, 'The Hurricane' is the authoritative biography of one of the most charismatic and self-destructive figures ever to appear in British sport.
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