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Solo, August 2012
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A Memoir of Hope
HarperCollins
August 2012
On Sale: August 14, 2012
304 pages ISBN: 0062136747 EAN: 9780062136749 Kindle: B007BCG9N2 Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
"My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or
frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired
to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken
promise." Hope Solo is the face of the modern female
athlete. She is fearless, outspoken, and the best in the
world at what she does: protecting the goal of the U.S.
women's soccer team. Her outsized talent has led her to the
pinnacle of her sport—the Olympics and the World Cup—and
made her into an international celebrity who is just as
likely to appear on ABC's Dancing with the Stars as
she is on the covers of Sports Illustrated, ESPN
The Magazine, and Vogue. But her journey—which
began in Richland, Washington, where she was raised by her
strong-willed mother on the scorched earth of defunct
nuclear testing sites—is similarly haunted by the fallout of
her family history. Her father, a philanderer and con man,
was convicted of embezzlement when Solo was an infant. She
lost touch with him as he drifted out of prison and into
homelessness. By the time they reunited, years later, in the
parking lot of a grocery store, she was an All-American
goalkeeper at the University of Washington and already a
budding prospect for the U.S. national team. He was living
in the woods. Despite harboring serious doubts even
about the provenance of her father's last name (and her
own), Solo embraces him as fiercely as she pursues her
dreams of being a world-class soccer player. When those
dreams are threatened by her standing within the national
team, as when she was famously benched in the semifinals of
the 2007 World Cup after four shutouts and spoke her piece
publicly, we see a woman of uncompromising independence and
hard-won perseverance navigate the petty backlash against
her. For the first time, she tells her version of that
controversial episode, and offers with it a full
understanding of her hard-scrabble life. Moving,
sometimes shocking, Solo is a portrait of an athlete
finding redemption. This is the Hope Solo whom few have ever
glimpsed.
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