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Chasing Water: Elegy of an Olympian



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ISBN-13:
9781617754647

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Akashic Books

Date of publication:
03/14/2016

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300

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155231

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"There Erwin and swim coach and journalist Markides combine talents to create a biography, which is part of the first-hand story of Irwin, with filling Markides in detail and providing a context. The formula works by pulling readers into the experience Erwin about the thrill of victory and the search for meaning. ... Featuring more depth, breadth, however, and the consequences of foolish choices than the traditional biographies of athletes, is an exciting account just in time to gear up to the Rio 2016 Olympic games. The readers will understand the psyche and the life of elite athletes, as never before, and then raise Erwin in his attempt to make another Olympic team. "- Library journal" The famous Olympian tells how he rose to the top of their sport, crashed and found redemption ... .This is a book that tells its story through the story, which interweaves recollections of the former gold medalist with comments his friend and colleague Markides shows the extreme highs and lows that characterized the remarkable life and career .... Author Erwin never flinches when identifying its less-than-perfect in the past, and it shows humility on to come to terms with his own self-interest and personal shortcomings often makes the book compelling. The provocative and refreshingly honest memoir of redemption. " - Kirkus Reviews "Markides smartly combines its own journalistic account of the parallel narrative in which Erwin ... explains the life and style of some talent simply can not be explained, however, and Erwin could be in this category .... The history of it. return at 31 (old swimmer) rendered a surprising contrast to what it was before. "- Booklist" Best memories of Olympians are puff pieces, ghost written so smoothly you fall asleep trying to make it to the end of the first chapter Chasing Water is the opposite. , the intimate, visceral experience you will appreciate "- SwimSwam" refreshingly unexpected athlete biography void rolling eyes, cliché # 233; .. D, self-help propaganda garbage "- Gary Hall, Jr., swimmer, ten-time Olympic medalistEvery four years in the Olympic cycle surge of national interest in sailing is growing, and with it the desire to be captivated by its stars. This book tells the story of a dramatic, surprising and sometimes provocative way, Anthony Ervin took to be one of those exciting Olympic heroes. Not your typical sports memoir, chasing Water also contains arresting black and white drawings and graphic story optional, as well as inventive and mercurial style of narration, which morphs into chapters to reflect the hectic, multi-faceted life.Ervin Erwin won the gold medal at the Sydney Olympics at the age of nineteen in 2000. He branded athlete slew of names, including being the first US Olympic swimmer of African-American descent, along with the Jewish heritage, who also grew up with Tourette's syndrome. He shocked the sports world by retiring shortly after claiming two world title following the 2000 Olympics. Corporization his gold medal to charity, he went in search of the spiritual part of the suicidal ticks involved Zen temples, fast motorcycles, tattoo parlors, and rock and roll bands. Then Erwin surfaced in 2012, to not only make the US Olympic team, twelve years after its first appearance, but in order to continue his career by swimming faster than ever before, and faster than anyone else. He is currently training for the 2016 Olympics in Rio.


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