Unstoppable

Unstoppable: My Life So Far

Paperback Published on: 28/06/2018
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Synopsis

The fiercely honest, fearless, darkly funny autobiography of global tennis star Maria Sharapova

In the middle of the night, a father and his daughter step off a Greyhound bus in Florida and head straight to the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy. They ring the bell, though no one is expecting them and they don't speak English. They have arrived from Russia with just seven hundred dollars and the conviction that this six-year-old girl will be the world's next great tennis star. They are right.

This is Maria Sharapova's gripping and fearless autobiography, telling her story from her roots in the small Siberian town her parents fled to after the Chernobyl disaster, through her arrival in the US with nothing and her phenomenal rise to success - winning Wimbledon aged just seventeen - to the disasters that threatened her career and her fight back.

'A compelling memoir' David Shaftel, Financial Times

'An illuminating account ... This is the bildungsroman of a controversial champion, a portrait of the athlete as an uncommonly driven young woman' Julia Felsenthal, Vogue

  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • ISBN: 9780141987521
  • Number of pages: 304
  • Weight: 238g
  • Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 17 mm

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Unstoppable
getting to know maria
who she is on court, off court and the journey she took to get their, I liked this book it's a good read I looked forward to reading each chapter, the book... READ MORE
Paul Kilsby
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Very moving life of Sharapova. Who worked so hard without her Mum as a youngster to follow her dreams so very talented
beverley jones