Button establishes expectations early on, by making us a mind-picture of a visit at his home, where he will hold forth on figure-skating topics. And he delivers exactly what he promises: it's discursive, amiably snobbish in places, definitely opinionated, and very much in tune with the world-view an...
I requested this for Christmas, and I'm very pleased I did. It has a curiously international provenance (published in the US, printed in China), but it's a Canadian book at heart, and that can only be pleasing to a Canadian reader, however irritating it may be to others. My only disappointment is th...
"What it's like to be a Champion - and how to do it." Autobiography plus instructional chapters on figures and free skating. Includes a chapter on judging, and another arguing against the disproportionate emphasis on compulsory figures at the expense of free skating.
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