Zero Tollerance: An Intimate Memoir by the Man Who Revolutionized Figure Skating - Hardcover

Cranston, Toller; Kimball, Martha Lowder

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0771023340 ISBN 13: 9780771023347

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

The innovative Canadian figure skater recounts his training, his amateur and professional career, and his sometimes wild life off the ice

About this title

About the Author

<b>Toller Cranston</b> continues both to skate professionally and to paint prolifically. He divides his time between Toronto and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

From the Inside Flap

ton is: six-time Canadian figure-skating champion, celebrity, costume designer, artist ex<i>traordinaire, </i>broadcaster, choreographer of skating routines, raconteur, bon vivant, coach, world traveller, art collector, legend, and enigma. In 1976 he won Olympic bronze (so why did it feel like defeat?). This book tells the story of his life after those fateful games at Innsbruck.<br><br>The rise and fall of Toller’s first professional ice show is described in soul-searing detail. His subsequent triumphant tour of Europe as the Skater of the Century is recounted, in contrast, with wicked humour. There are vignettes here of his encounters with the rich and famous from Leonard Bernstein to Pierre Cardin and of his life among Europe’s aristocrats and bohemians. Toller has experienced the high life and the low. He has stayed in the most luxurious hotels, held court in palatial houses, sought seclusion in beautiful estates. But the hard times have taken their toll. <br><br>In t

Edition details

• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0771023340
• ISBN 13: 9780771023347
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352