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Title: The Second Mark : Courage, Corruption, and the Battle for Olympic Gold by Joy Goodwin ISBN: 0-7432-4527-X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 04 March, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: The Second Mark
Comment: Like Seabiscuit, Friday Night Lights, and Eight Men Out, The Second Mark transcends the sports genre. The figure skating is there, all right, but so is the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the lost generation of Mao's Cultural Revolution, a little boy carrying a bedboard down flights of stairs to use as a pingpong table, and a Chinese girl skating by candlelight in a deserted, late night ice rink. In both large strokes and small details, the book takes you, not only into the lives of the six medalists in the Olympics pairs skating competition, but into the cultures from which you cannot separate them.

It is an amazing story that unfolds, even if you thought you knew it. Beautifully written and seen--Joy Goodwin's writing is worthy of the story and that is high praise. I loved this book!

Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Read
Comment: What a treat to read something so compelling and well written. Joy Goodwin's book is a real page-turner, with characters who are brought to life and a story that springs from the pages. You need know virtually nothing about figure skating (that's me) to be enchanted. I could not put it down.

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