Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Welcome to my World

Author:  Johnny Weir


Publisher:  Gallery Books, 2011


Edition:  Print


Where I got the book:  Strathcona High School Library


Publisher's Summary:


How does a boy from rural Pennsylvania become an all-American original icon adored by millions of fans worldwide and hailed as " the Lady Gaga of figure skating"?


In a memoir as candid and unconventional as Johnny Weir himself,
the three-time U.S. National Champion, who electrified the 2010 Winter Olympics, shares his glamorous, gritty, heartbreaking, hopeful, and just plain fabulous life story, and reveals the emergence of his natural talents for skating and horseback riding, the physically and emotionally grinding path to becoming a champion, a family that sacrificed everything to support his passions, an ability to rise again after the most devastating defeats and never look back, an appreciation of style (from his mom) and self-discipline (that would be his dad), and a fearless confidence to be himself and say whatever's on his mind.

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