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  title info:
    title: Godspeed
    sub title: a memoir
  name:
    name part: Legler, Casey
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  genre: Autobiographies.
  genre: Nonfiction.
  genre: Biography.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First Atria Books hardcover edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 162 pages ; 22 cm
  abstract: "I swim for every chance to get wasted--after every meet, every weekend, every travel trip. This is what I look forward to and what I tell no one: the burn of it down my throat, to my soul curled up in my lungs, the sharpest pain all over it--it seizes and stretches, becoming alive again, and is the only thing that makes sense." At fifteen, Casey Legler is already one of the fastest swimmers in the world. She is also an alcoholic, isolated from her family, and incapable of forming lasting connections with those around her. Driven to compete at the highest levels, sent far away from home to train with the best coaches and teams, she finds herself increasingly alone and alienated, living a life of cheap hotels and chlorine-worn skin, anonymous sexual encounters and escalating drug use. Even at what should be a moment of triumph--competing at age sixteen in the 1996 Olympics--she is an outsider looking in, procuring drugs for Olympians she hardly knows, and losing her race after setting a new world record in the qualifying heats. After submitting to years of numbing training in France and the United States, Casey can see no way out of the sinister loneliness that has swelled and festered inside her. Yet wondrously, when it is almost too late, she discovers a small light within herself, and senses a point of calm within the whirlwind of her life. In searing, evocative, visceral prose, Casey gives language to loneliness in this startling story of survival, defiance, and of the embers that still burn when everything else in us goes dark.
  abstract: At fifteen, Legler was already one of the fastest swimmers in the world. She was also an alcoholic, isolated from her family, and incapable of forming lasting connections with those around her. Driven to compete at the highest levels, sent far away from home to train with the best coaches and teams, she was increasingly alone and alienated, living a life of cheap hotels and chlorine-worn skin, anonymous sexual encounters and escalating drug use. Competing in the 1996 Olympics, she was procuring drugs for Olympians she hardly knew, and lost her race after setting a new world record in the qualifying heats. In her memoir, Legler tells a story of survival, defiance, and of the embers that still burn when everything else in us goes dark. -- adapted from jacket
  note: Casey Legler.
  note: The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
  note: The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy is inscribed to Don Kelly by the author.
  note: Donated by Don Kelly 20190226
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Legler, Casey
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Olympic Games (26th : 1996 : Atlanta, Ga.)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Olympic Games.
  subject:
    topic: Women swimmers
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Women alcoholics
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Women drug addicts
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Lesbian athletes
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Swimmers
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Alcoholics
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Drug addicts
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Athletes
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Women alcoholics
  subject:
    topic: Women swimmers
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Alcoholism
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBT
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports
  classification: GV838.L45 A3 2018
  classification: 797.2/1092 B
  identifier: 9781501135750
  identifier: 1501135759
  identifier: 9781501135774
  identifier: 2018022193
  record info:
    record content source: PUL
    record creation date: 180518
    record change date: 20190718163428.0
    record identifier: in00004076798
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng