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One winter's night in 1976, over 20 million Britons watched John Curry skate to Olympic glory. Overnight he had become one of the most famous men on the planet. He was awarded the OBE and showered with honours. And yet the man was - and remains - an absolute mystery to the world that had been dazzled by his gift.
Curry had changed his sport from marginal curiosity to high art. Men's skating was supposed to be vaulting and muscular, not sensual and ambiguous like this. But with Olympic gold had come the public burden of a secret. Almost uniquely for the times - and within just a few hours of his triumph - he had informed the world that he was gay.
In the extraordinary years which followed, Curry battled to transform skating into a theatrical sensation worthy of Nureyev. At his magnificent peak he brought the Royal Albert Hall and the New York Met to their feet. But behind his epic struggles lay a tortured, lonely man of labyrinthine complexity.
Informed by Curry's own remarkable letters - and over 100 interviews - Alone untangles the extraordinary web of this toxic, troubled and brilliant enigma as never before. It is a story of childhood nightmares, sporting rivalries, homophobia, Cold War politics, financial ruin and deep personal tragedy.
Here is revealed the restless, impatient, often dark soul of a man whose words could lacerate, whose skating moved audiences to tears, and who - like many of his closest friends - died of AIDS, aged just 44.
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