Godspeed : a memoir
Legler, Casey2019
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At fifteen, Casey Legler is already one of the fastest swimmers in the world. She is also an alcoholic, isolated from her family, and incapable of forming lasting connections with those around her. Driven to compete at the highest levels, sent far away from home to train with the best coaches and teams, she finds herself increasingly alone and alienated, living a life of cheap hotels and chlorine-worn skin, anonymous sexual encounters and escalating drug use. Even at what should be a moment of triumph - competing at age nineteen in the 1996 Olympics - she is an outsider looking in, procuring drugs for Olympians she hardly knows, and losing her race after setting a new world record in the qualifying heats.
Main title:
Godspeed : a memoir / Casey Legler.
Author:
Legler, Casey, author
Edition:
UK edition.
Imprint:
London : Scribe, 2019.
Collation:
viii, 164 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Atria Books, 2018.
ISBN:
9781912854813 (pbk)
Dewey class:
797.21092
LC class:
GV838.L4
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2581280