When Hell Freezes over: Should I Bring My Skates - Hardcover

Cranston, Toller; Kimball, Martha Lowder

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0771023367 ISBN 13: 9780771023361

Verlag: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 2001

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Book by Toller Cranston Martha Lowder Kimball

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described as “bold, brazen, and totally unabashed,” “one of a kind,” and “clearly a genius.” He won the Canadian figure-skating championships six times and brought back a bronze medal from the 1976 Winter Olympic Games. He revolutionized men’s figure skating, single-handedly transforming an athletic competition into a modern art form. He is an artist, celebrity, costume designer, broadcaster, choreographer of skating routines, coach, bon vivant, world traveller, art collector, legend, and enigma. And Toller Cranston has stories to tell.

Like the time at Lake Placid when a woman drove her car directly into his bedroom and seduced him, and the groupie who broke into his house and waited for him naked except for a few strategically arranged rose petals. He writes about his encounters with the great and famous. (On meeting Joni Mitchell, for example, he asked, politely, “You sing, don’t you?”) With mixed feelings, he describes his re

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Toller Cranston continues both to skate professionally and to paint prolifically. He divides his time between Toronto and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

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• Verlag: McClelland & Stewart Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0771023367
• ISBN 13: 9780771023361
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 281