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Also by Frank Deford:

Football, August 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Over Time, May 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Bliss, Remembered, August 2011
Paperback
Bliss, Remembered, July 2010
Hardcover
A Gift for Ron, November 2009
Hardcover
The Entitled, May 2007
Hardcover
The Old Ball Game, April 2006
Trade Size (reprint)

BLISS, REMEMBERED
By: Frank Deford

Overlook
August 2011
On Sale: July 26, 2011
352 pages
ISBN: 1590206428
EAN: 9781590206423
Paperback
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With Bliss, Remembered, the celebrated Frank Deford has produced a work of literature that ranks with the best of his many novels, including Everybody's All American, which Sports Illustrated ranked as one of the twenty-five 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 should-have-been 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 U.S., Sydney--daring, vulnerable, and memorable--is left healing her broken heart when a striking American begins to pursue her. In Deford's tender novel, the simplicity and honesty of choices of the heart clash with a brutal time--a time when choices seemed so dire in the enveloping shadows of a changing world.

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Morning Edition - July 27, 2011