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    Gold (Hardback) By (author) Chris Cleave

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    Short Description for Gold Building on the tradition of "Little Bee," Cleave again writes with elegance, humor, and passion about friendship, marriage, parenthood, tragedy, and redemption. On the road to Olympic Gold in London, world-class athletes Zoe and Kate must decide what's most important to them.
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    Title
    Gold
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Chris Cleave
    Physical properties
    Format: Hardback
    Number of pages: 336
    Width: 160 mm
    Height: 231 mm
    Thickness: 30 mm
    Weight: 544 g
    Audience
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9781451672725
    ISBN 10: 1451672721
    Classifications
    BISAC category code: FIC044000
    BISAC category code: FIC000000
    BISAC category code: FIC019000
    Dewey: FIC
    Dewey: 823.92
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: F1.1
    BICMainSubject: FA
    Publisher
    SIMON & SCHUSTER
    Imprint name
    SIMON & SCHUSTER
    Publication date
    03 July 2012
    Publication City/Country
    New York, NY/US
    Review quote
    "Moving and compelling . . . . The millions of readers of "Little Bee" can attest that despite the delicacy of his prose, Cleave doesn't deal in half measures or subtle strokes--he goes straight for the heartstrings. Every page of "Gold" is drenched with an urgency of feeling that generates the same emotional pleasure as a great moment in sports, where we simultaneously witness triumph and failure in the starkest, most dramatic terms. . . . "Gold" will likely resonate most with readers for the way it unveils the ordinariness surrounding the extraordinary." --"Nashville Scene"
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    What would you sacrifice for the people you love? KATE AND ZOE met at nineteen when they both made the cut for the national training program in track cycling—a sport that demands intense focus, blinding exertion, and unwavering commitment. They are built to exploit the barest physical and psychological edge over equally skilled rivals, all of whom are fighting for the last one tenth of a second that separates triumph from despair. Now at thirty-two, the women are facing their last and biggest race: the 2012 Olympics. Each wants desperately to win gold, and each has more than a medal to lose. Kate is the more naturally gifted, but the demands of her life have a tendency to slow her down. Her eight-year-old daughter Sophie dreams of the Death Star and of battling alongside the Rebels as evil white blood cells ravage her personal galaxy—she is fighting a recurrence of the leukemia that nearly killed her three years ago. Sophie doesn’t want to stand in the way of her mum’s Olympic dreams, but each day the dark forces of the universe seem to be massing against her. Devoted and self-sacrificing Kate knows her daughter is fragile, but at the height of her last frenzied months of training, might she be blind to the most terrible prognosis? Intense, aloof Zoe has always hovered on the periphery of real human companionship, and her compulsive need to win at any cost has more than once threatened her friendship with Kate—and her own sanity. Will she allow her obsession, and the advantage she has over a harried, anguished mother, to sever the bond they have shared for more than a decade? Echoing the adrenaline-fueled rush of a race around the Velodrome track, Gold is a triumph of superbly paced, heart-in-throat storytelling. With great humanity and glorious prose, Chris Cleave examines the values that lie at the heart of our most intimate relationships, and the choices we make when lives are at stake and everything is on the line.