Ice Time: A Portrait of Figure Skating

by Debbi Wilkes

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131851179
• ISBN13: 9780131851177
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Canada
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Good Inside Look At Skating in the Cold War....

I bought this book when it came out around 1994/95 and re-read it recently. The best part of this book is the section where Ms. Wilkes, a Canadian Olympic medalist in pairs, talks about her experiences coming up in the sport. It's a great read and gives the reader a lot of insight into what the sport was like at the height of the Cold War. The rest of the book is basically commentary on skating at the time the book was written. I thoroughly enjoyed the parts that talked about Kurt and Elvis, but I didn't really agree with some of her favorites in the ladies' department (she also doesn't seem to be much of a fan of Kristi Yamaguchi, who is one of my favorite skaters, so that might have something to do with it). But this is a minor complaint. Buy this book for the great retrospective on the 1994 Olympic season and for Ms. Wilkes'very absorbing tales of skating in the 1960s.