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Skyhorse Publishing
August 2015
On Sale: July 21, 2015
272 pages
ISBN: 163450500X
EAN: 9781634505000
Kindle: B011OQAI78
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Memoir
Now a major motion picture directed by Robert Zemeckis
and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, an artist of the air
re-creates his six-year plot to pull off an act of
incomparable beauty and imagination.
More than a
quarter century before September 11, 2001, the World Trade
Center was immortalized by an act of unprecedented daring
and beauty. In August 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe
Petit boldly—and illegally—fixed a rope between the tops of
the still-young Twin Towers, a quarter mile off the ground.
At daybreak, thousands of spectators gathered to watch in
awe and adulation as he traversed the rope a full eight
times in the course of an hour. In The Walk, Petit recounts
the six years he spent preparing for this achievement, a
tour de force of imagination and tenacity.
Petit’s
achievement made headlines around the world. In this
stunning book, Petit tells the dramatic story of this
history-making walk, from conception and clandestine
planning to the performance and its aftermath. It draws on
Petit’s own journals, in which he sketched and scribbled
everything from his budgets to his strategies for rigging a
high wire between two of the most secure towers in the
world. It is a fitting tribute to those
lost-but-not-forgotten symbols of human aspiration—the Twin
Towers.
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