Fallen Angel

William Fotheringham

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Publisher: YELLOW JERSEY PRESS

Publication Date : 04/06/2009

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

Subtitled, "The Passion Of Fausto Coppi". A remarkable biography of the popular Italian cyclist, whose scandalous divorce and controversial death convulsed Italy in the 1950s and were still making headlines a half century later.

Publisher's description:

Voted the most popular Italian sportsman of the twentieth century, Fausto Angelo Coppi was the campionissimo - champion of cycling champions. This title tells the story of Coppi's tragic life and death, of how a man who became the symbol of a nation's rebirth after the disasters of war died reviled and heartbroken.

ISBN: 9780224074476