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Comeback 2.0: Up Close and Personal
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Item Description...
Overview
The champion cyclist and cancer survivor offers a first-person photo-journal of his 2009 comeback season, during which he helped promote a global cancer awareness campaign.
Publishers Description
After three years in retirement following his record-setting 7th Tour de France win -- which he accomplished after successfully battling the testicular cancer that almost killed him -- Lance Armstrong announced to the world on September 24, 2008 at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City, that he would return to professional cycling to help promote a Global Cancer Campaign. Comeback 2.0: Up Close and Personal is Lance Armstrong's first-person photo-journal of his 2009 comeback season with the goal to take the LIVESTRONG message around the world. Heavily illustrated with color photos and text, Lance will take readers on a thrilling ride through his dramatic comeback year. Comeback 2.0 includes an introduction by Lance that frames his decision to return to competitive cycling followed by journal-like entries written through the course of his comeback season beginning with the Tour Down Under, followed by the Tour of California, his spectacular crash in the first stage of the Vuelta a Castilla y Leon race in Spain that resulted in a broken collar bone, the Giro d'Italia, culminating in the Tour de France. The journal entries will accompany spectacular four-color photos, that offer breathtaking views of the race stages as well as intimate, behind-the-scenes shots. Renowned sports photographer and photojournalist Elizabeth Kreutz has been granted unparalleled access to Lance's day-to-day world in this, his most triumphant season. |
Item Specifications...
Pages 208
Dimensions: Length: 0.75" Width: 9.5" Height: 9.5"
Weight: 2 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Release Date Dec 1, 2009
ISBN 1439173141
EAN 9781439173145
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 | Great pictures but full of corporate sponsor plugs and self promotion Dec 25, 2009 |
A "Jekyll and Hyde" type of book here -- the good parts are the great photography and glimpses behind the scenes of elite cycling and work on behalf of cancer survivors. However, this book is also full of plugs for Mr. Armstrong's corporate sponsors with their logos prominently featured in many of the photographs, often multiple times. The book also contains Armstrong's defenses against some of the media attacks against him (not supporting team-mates, allegations of doping etc.).
Overall, it's not possible to wholeheartedly endorse this book given the number of times the author feels compelled to personally defend his reputation and plug his sponsors. Would have been a substantially better effort if it had fewer of these types of references and even more detail about the actual cycling, race and training strategy and interaction with his Astana team mates. | | |  | PERFECT! Dec 10, 2009 |
| I recieved my copy of Comeback 2.0 today, and I gotta say this book is fantastic! While it may not be a autobiography, it really does give u a very up close and personal look into Lance Armstrongs life on the road and as well as off the road. Photographs are amazing, I couldn't have asked for a better book! I suggest this to any die hard Lance Armstrong fan, such as myself. You will NOT be disappointed! | | | | Lance Armstrong's year before the Tour de France, a personal and inspirational story told with pictures Dec 8, 2009 |
Just when you think there is nothing left to know about Lance Armstrong along comes this book and it gives us a new layer of understanding his life. Earlier this year was "Lance, the Making of the World's Greatest Champion" and "We Might as Well Win" and before that a plethora of books that were written about Lance Armstong or by Lance Armstrong himself. I wouldn't have figured there would be another book that would interest me on Lance Armstrong, but I was wrong.
Lance Armstrong is a bit like Brett Farve in that he should be too old to win at this stuff but we love that he does, with body fat of 4% and the incredible pace and distance of the Tour. The strain shows and I would guess that is the appeal. Meanwhile, apart from the cycling, Lance Armstrong is an industry, a one-man show, with a juggernaut of a public life. While he doesn't break under the pressure, the strain shows. His life seems to take continuous focused effort, training, races, health problems (broken collarbone), cancer foundation fundraising, and a pregnant girlfriend. In these photos he comes across as stripped down psychologically of artifice as he is of body fat, a fuel-efficient engine for success. His personal life, having a baby boy Max with Anna Hansen last summer, is a charming relationship aspect of his multifaceted life.
The pictures are arranged chronologically over the year before the 2009 Tour de France. The pictures creates interest and are poignant, stark and telling, a highly personal story told with few words. High quality photography by Elizabeth Kreutz are edgy in content, printed on high-quality photo paper. "Comeback 2.0" makes for an appealing coffeetable-type inspirational book.
| | |  | High quality with stunning photographs Dec 3, 2009 |
Don't make the mistake of thinking that this is a Lance Armstrong autobiography in the style of It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life and Every Second Counts. He writes a brief introduction, but essentially it is a pictorial diary of a year in the life of Lance Armstrong, from when he made the decision to return to professional cycling through to the Tour de France earlier this year. It's a busy year with lots of training (he gets noticeably thinner over the year); racing events in Australia, the US and Europe; a broken collarbone; a new baby and lots of fundraising and campaigning for cancer research.
The photographs are all taken by Elizabeth Kreutz and they are stunning - see the examples above. They are arranged in chronological order and each is accompanied by a little explanation from Lance about what he was doing or thinking at the time. The layout of the book and the paper stock are also high quality.
Reading this book feels like you've spent a year being a fly on the wall as Lance goes about his life. It's a fascinating glimpse into his world, from the high glamour (flying in private jets and hanging out with world leaders) to the mundane (running his kids to school and playing in the backyard with them - nice backyard by the way Lance). There's even a photo of him undergoing a urine test. You certainly get an appreciation for the hard work that goes into being a professional cyclist as well as the considerable work that he does for cancer research. His relationship with his partner Anna also comes across as being very close and strong. There's a photo of him smiling with Contadour at the press conference announcing that they'd be racing together, along with a wry comment that this was probably as friendly as they ever got.
It's a gorgeous book and very interesting, but do be aware that essentially it's a coffee table book rather than an autobiography. | | | | Worth the wait Dec 1, 2009 |
| I pre-ordered this book several months ago. Just got it today. Can't put it down. Great intro and fantastic photos. Well done. | | | Write your own review about Comeback 2.0: Up Close and Personal
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