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    All the Sundays Yet to Come: An Athlete's Journey
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    All the Sundays Yet to Come: An Athlete's Journey

    By Kathryn Bertine

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    In her hilarious and heartfelt memoir, Kathryn Bertine tells the strange-but-true story of what life is really like behind the glitz and glamour of professional figure skating.                  
     
    Bertine’s childhood dream came true when she earned a place in a touring ice show. But as she traveled through the back roads of Chile and Argentina in a rickety bus with the international cast of Hollywood on Ice, she wondered if this was exactly the dream she had in mind.                                    
     
    Gone were the days of athleticism and artistry. Hollywood on Ice was half Disney, half Playboy. The skaters apply false eyelashes the size of caterpillars and wriggle into progressively more revealing costumes. Some performers dress up as animals; some real animals actually skate. The undeniable showstopper was the Michael Jackson number, starring a middle-aged blonde with a beer belly that is barely contained by his flashy spandex costume.
     
    Bertine was no quitter, and she stuck it out—with laugh-out-loud humor and unfailing grace. But as she came to fully understand the differences between showbiz and sports, Bertine had to make the hardest choice of her life.
     
    Anyone who has known—or dreamed of becoming—a skater, dancer, or professional athlete will find here a poignant, funny, and utterly winning story of a young woman’s courage, resolve, and grace under pressure.


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJul 22, 2014
    ISBN9781497652200
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    All the Sundays Yet to Come: An Athlete's Journey
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    Kathryn Bertine

    Kathryn Bertine is a sports journalist, pro athlete, social activist, and documentarian. She holds a BA from Colgate University and an MFA from the University of Arizona, and is a former senior editor at ESPNW. She is the author of As Good as Gold and The Road Less Taken. Her essays and columns have appeared in ESPN and VeloNews. An advocate for equality in women’s sports, Bertine created a documentary film, Half the Road: The Passion, Pitfalls and Power of Women’s Professional Cycling, which debuted in 2014.   A native of Bronxville, New York, Bertine now lives in Tucson, Arizona. Please visit her at www.kathrynbertine.com and www.halftheroad.com, and follow her at @kathrynbertine and @halftheroad.

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