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A review by debi_g
Fast Girl: A Life Spent Running from Madness by Suzy Favor Hamilton
2.0
Did anything in this book shock or disgust me?
Yes. In this book, Suzy Favor Hamilton admits she faked a fall in her final, last-place-finish Olympic race.
SMH
This memoir seems to have been dictated to a ghostwriter or fixer. Discrepancies and pacing issues may be a product of Favor Hamilton's mental status, or they may be the result of a fatigued editor.
The book manages to simultaneously over- and under-explain, stopping short of answering easily anticipated questions about her double life, Vegas activities, and marital strain. Certainly, she was trying to avoid further scandal with a matter-of-fact approach that prevents the book from teetering into titillating territory, but although Favor Hamilton did not try to make herself look good, she also did not portray herself as sympathetic.
Don't read this book expecting to understand the following:
How is it that a swimsuit calendar proved too taxing for the writer's family, yet a tell (nearly) all book is not?
How has her life changed since being publicly outed?
Why did Favor Hamilton write this account?
Yes. In this book, Suzy Favor Hamilton admits she faked a fall in her final, last-place-finish Olympic race.
SMH
This memoir seems to have been dictated to a ghostwriter or fixer. Discrepancies and pacing issues may be a product of Favor Hamilton's mental status, or they may be the result of a fatigued editor.
The book manages to simultaneously over- and under-explain, stopping short of answering easily anticipated questions about her double life, Vegas activities, and marital strain. Certainly, she was trying to avoid further scandal with a matter-of-fact approach that prevents the book from teetering into titillating territory, but although Favor Hamilton did not try to make herself look good, she also did not portray herself as sympathetic.
Don't read this book expecting to understand the following:
How is it that a swimsuit calendar proved too taxing for the writer's family, yet a tell (nearly) all book is not?
How has her life changed since being publicly outed?
Why did Favor Hamilton write this account?