Legends of Women's Figure Skating

Legends of Women's Figure SkatingWith their flying spins and graceful leaps over the ice, figure skaters exemplify what it means to be an athlete and an artist. Legends of Womens Figures Skating features short biographies of twenty eight of the greatest women figure skaters of all time, from pioneers like Sonja Henie and Carol Heiss; to the American legends of the 90s, such as Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan; to the rising stars of today, like Amber Glenn and Alysa Liu. Filled with

this appealing book gives a vivid sense of stepping into another culture

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employing it with great humor and surprising skill

it has relevance for today

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with additional photos from Edinger’s archives

and an afterword by art historian Suzaan Boettger examines their aesthetic qualities

Yet this was only one facet of Sarg’s varied accomplishments: he was also a pioneer in animated films and children’s books

he could little have imagined that his small venture would become one of the iconic American toy companies

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the fictional biographies reveal the character and family history of an unreliable scholar-narrator (Dawes's alter ego) and offer a darkly humorous view of New England history and culture

She ranges across eras and cultures