Bliss, Remembered, Frank Deford
Bliss, Remembered, Frank Deford
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Bliss, Remembered

Author: Frank Deford

Narrator: Pam Ward and Traber Burns

Unabridged: 11 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/31/2011

Synopsis

With Bliss, Remembered, the celebrated Frank Deford has produced a work of literature that ranks with the best of his many novels, including Everybodys All American, which Sports Illustrated ranked as one of the twentyfive best sports books of all time. In Bliss, Remembered, Deford explores new territory as he tells two love stories from the perspective of a beautiful shouldhavebeen Olympic champion named Sydney Stringfellow. At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Sydney begins an intense love affair with a German, but the affair abruptly ends when political forces tear them apart. Back in the US, Sydneydaring, vulnerable, and memorableis left healing her broken heart when a striking American begins to pursue her. In Defords tender novel, the simplicity and honesty of choices of the heart clash with a brutal timea time when choices seemed so dire in the enveloping shadows of a changing world.

About Frank Deford

Frank Deford, author of The Entitled, is senior contributing writer for Sports Illustrated (and six-time Sportswriter of the Year), NPR commentator, and correspondent for HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. He has won a Peabody, an Emmy, and countless other awards. He lives in Westport, Connecticut.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tara on June 11, 2010

This is a story about a young Maryland woman in 1936 who gets to be on the American Olympic swim team and go to Berlin for the games.. At the age of 82, she is telling her story for the first time to her son, Teddy. And what a story it is.. [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Jane on June 15, 2011

Bliss, Remembered by Frank Deford is the story of a mother with her own story to tell, and the son who patiently gives her time to tell it. Despite the fact that the author is also a sportswriter, this is not a book filled with sports action. The tale takes its time in the telling, allowing the read......more

Goodreads review by Simon on March 29, 2015

Exasperating as hell. DeFord starts with a fantastic premise, and then blows it through poor execution. You can see the ending about a mile away, and it just plods as you get to it. However, it is a good read in the old-fashioned sense. This is not a novel with a message (other than that everything......more

Goodreads review by Dick on January 19, 2011

If you are a NPR listener then you already know Frank Deford for his show "it is only a Game". If you are like me and read SI, then you know him as one of the great sports writers of our time. This book is a great one. Fiction set at one of the most compelling Olympics in History, the Nazi Olympics......more

Goodreads review by Shomeret on January 31, 2011

I won this book from a giveaway on my GR friend Tara's Book Babe blog. Then the publisher Overlook Press shipped it to me. So thank you very much Tara and Overlook Press. I stayed up until 1AM to finish this book because it got so suspenseful toward the end. This is a book that chronicles the life of......more

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