Cycling is the frame, but the centre of this memoir is a cancer diagnosis and the long return that followed it.
Written with the sports journalist Sally Jenkins, the account moves between Armstrong's early racing years in Texas, the treatment that interrupted them, and the changed outlook he brought back to the sport. The voice is blunt rather than polished, and family, fear and stubbornness get as much room as competition.
What it brings to a collection:
• A first-hand account of serious illness, treatment and recovery told without softening
• Co-written with Sally Jenkins, whose reporting shapes the structure of the narrative
• Background on professional road racing that assumes no prior knowledge of the sport
• Reflections on family, purpose and motivation that reach past athletic achievement
Suited to readers of sports memoir, survivorship stories and general non-fiction, available in English through Boipoka.
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