Forever Two as One

Babilonia, Tai and Randy Gardner with Martha Lowder Kimball

ISBN 10: 0966250214 / ISBN 13: 9780966250213

Published by Millpond Press, 2002

About this Item

Red hardcover with gilt titles in dustjacket. A good+ copy with some wear to the cover edges and bending at the lower corners. Bumping to the front edge of the front cover. Pages are clean and binding is solid. Unclipped dustjacket is also good but with some minor staining spineward, and crinkling along the panel edges. 186 pp., indexed, color and b/w photos throughout. A history of Babilonia and Gardner's 30 years as skating partners.

Seller Inventory # 1938

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Forever Two as One
• Publisher: Millpond Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0966250214
• ISBN 13: 9780966250213
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • SPORTS & RECREATION::Ice & Figure Skating
  • Biography
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY::Sports

About this title

Synopsis

Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner have spent more than thirty years as skating partners and best friends. Linked at the ages of eight and ten, they grew up together, developed a unique pairs style and performing persona, then won the Championship Pairs event at the 1979 World Figure Skating Championships.

Still at the height of their amateur career, they were forced by Randy's injury to withdraw from the 1980 Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, just moments before what would have been one of the greatest East-West showdowns in sports history. That disappointment brought Tai and Randy worldwide empathy as well as a long and rich professional career. At the same time, it left behind repressed bitterness that manifested itself in sometimes dramatic ways.

With Forever Two As One, a lush, full-color volume with a stunning dust jacket and decorative endpapers, the reader relives the skaters' journey: through their own frank commentary; through the insights of friends like Robin Cousins, Scott Hamilton, Christopher Knight of The Brady Bunch, Hollywood designer Jef Billings, singer and songwriter Stevie Nicks, and choreographer Sarah Kawahara; and finally through 133 photos from Tai and Randy's personal collections.

Review

...you’re being let in on a secret that has been shared by Tai and Randy... a truly great read. -- Figure Skating International: Online