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Raising Lance, Raising Me
Broadway
April 2005
On Sale: April 5, 2005
Featuring: Linda Armstrong Kelly; Lance Armstrong
288 pages
ISBN: 076791855X
EAN: 9780767918558
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Non-Fiction Memoir
From the mother of champion cyclist Lance Armstrong—an
extraordinary story of the resilience of the human spirit
and the remarkable effect of great parenting.
Lance
Armstrong has dazzled the world with his six straight Tour
de France championships, his winning personality, and his
poignant victory over life-threatening cancer. Yet the adage
that "behind every strong man there is a stronger woman" has
never been more true than in Lance’s case. His mother, Linda
Armstrong Kelly, is a force of nature whose determination,
optimism, and sheer joie de vivre not only nurtured
one of our era’s greatest athletes but fueled her own
transformation from a poverty-stricken teen in the Dallas
projects to a powerful role model for mothers everywhere.
This luminous memoir, written with humor and compassion,
tells Linda’s story of survival.
Pregnant at age
seventeen, kicked out of her home, and mired in an abusive
relationship, Linda was a perfect candidate for disaster.
But armed with a fierce belief in herself as a work in
progress, and buoyed by a tidal wave of love for her little
boy, Linda flouted statistics and became both a
corner-office executive and a no-nonsense, empowering mom
whose desire to excel was contagious. Her resolve to find
“the diamond in the Dumpster, the blessing in every bummer”
set an extraordinary example for Lance—and will inspire
everyday moms to dream big and make a
difference.
Funny, resonant, down-to-earth, and
utterly unforgettable, No Mountain High Enough is
exhilarating proof that sheer willpower can—and occasionally
does—triumph over adversity.
From Linda Armstrong
Kelly’s No Mountain High Enough:
“This is
what it means to be a mother, I realized. It had nothing
to do with being old enough or knowing everything or keeping
to a strict schedule. It had to do with loving someone with
a love so huge, the rest of the world becomes insignificant
by comparison. No fear I felt would ever amount to anything,
compared to what I felt for my child. No task would ever be
too hard for me. No one would ever be able to make me feel
small. I was The Mama. You don’t get any bigger than
that.”
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