Buy this book on-line HENNESSY,JOHN & TORVILL & DEAN: : TORVILL & DEANUK.NEWTON ABBOT,DEVON.DAVID & CHARLES,1983. ISBN 0715384767.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner
inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour photographic dw/dj with minimal shelf-wear
and light creasing to rear top+bottom edges.Black paper-covered bds with gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain white
eps.Top edge slightly foxed and lightly dust-soiled as normal.Fore-edges clean; contents bright, tight and near pristine.
8vo,208pp includes b/w photographic frntis,profuse b/w photographs,8pp colour photographs,appendices(2) with b/w line illus and an index.
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean have carved a special niche for themselves in the British public's esteem.They have brought the Olympic sport of ice dance to a pitch whereby virtually the whole world's attention is focused on their progress.Their appeal is on so many levels
- athletic, balletic, gymnastic, melodic, romantic and, not least, patriotic.Their image is as cleancut as the intricate patterns they trace on the ice.Their advance has been meteoric.They won their first world championship in 1981, jumping from fourth place with a programme that dazzled at the time but which they have themselves, with astonishing vision and dedication,already made to look positively
old-fashioned.Innovators in almost everything they do, they set a new standard with their impression of Mack and
Mabel (Mack Sennett and his lover Mabel Normand),clad appropiately in gold.They then went to the circus for inspiration and came up with another sparkling performance in Barnum on Ice.All the so-called popular sports were swept away when
they were chosen Team of the Year in 1981 by the exacting members of the Sports Writers' Association.In 1982 they became not only the critics' choice again but also the public's favourites by way of the
BBC tv poll.Many a head might have been turned by so much success and so much adulation in so short a time.Yet they have
remained the same unassuming young people who emerged from humble beginnings in the suburbs of Nottingham to receive invitations to Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street.In its way that may be their greatest achievement.John Hennessy has been a personal friend of Torvill and Dean since 1978.He joined the sports staff
of The Times in 1948 and was Sports Editor
from 1954-79.Since 1979 he has specialised
in winter sports, concentrating first on skiing and latterly on skating.This edition is now out of print as the publisher ceased trading in the late 1980's.
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