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BEING MYSELF: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

by NAVRATILOVA, MARTINA & VECSEY, GEORGE:

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ISBN 13
9780002172639
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG++/VG++.No owner inscrptn but price-clipped dw/dj.Subject portrait colour photographic wraps with minimal shelf-wear to dw/dj edges and light creasing/bumping to both head+foot of spine/backstrip with no nicks or tears.Waterstain internally to head of spine/backstrip and partially to top edges,but boards unaffected.Top+ fore- edges very lightly grubbed and spotted; contents bright,tight and clean.Green paper-covered boards with bright, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,15- 272pp includes half-title+title pages,illustrations list,author thanks+ prologue and 16pp b/w photographs. Martina Navratilova was eleven when the Russian tanks rolled into Prague, and her world changed forever.Born into a family dedicated to sport,she had played tennis since the age of four and was already dreaming of the Centre Court at Wimbledon.Soon her tennis was to take her abroad - West Germany,France and finally that 'magic place', America - and though she loved Czechoslavakia she began bitterly to resent the restrictions that were imposed on her.'For someone with a skill,a career,an aspiration,there was only one thing to do:get out'. She was eighteen when she left for America,but she soon found new pressures took the place of those she left behind.Her vivid personality seemed to attract the spotlight of publicity:how she lived,what she ate, who she saw all became the subject of constant speculation in the press. Here she parries criticism about her team of supporters and writes with candour and humour about her friends and lovers,and about becoming an American.Meanwhile we see her on the courts,playing Chris Evert, Tracy Austin,Rosie Casals and Billie Jean King with all the determination and resilience that got her to the top. This is a book made remarkable by Martina's sense of herself,her ability to recreate moments that are sad, funny,upsetting triumphant,and bring to life the people in and out of the tennis world who have been important to her.Martina had won 59 consecutive matches (breaking Chris Evert's total of 56);she had won Wimbledon five times, the US Open twice, and the French Open twice.She has recently won six straight Grand Slam tournaments,beginning in 1983 (all this then 1987).George Vecsey was the sports columnist for The New York Times.
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Title
BEING MYSELF: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
Author
NAVRATILOVA, MARTINA & VECSEY, GEORGE:
Illustrator
illus with contemporary b/w photographs.
Format/Binding
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Book Condition
Used - VG++.
Jacket Condition
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Quantity Available
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Edition
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0002172631
ISBN 13
9780002172639
Publisher
LONDON.COLLINS,1985.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
1985
Keywords
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