When Hell Freezes Over (Hardcover)

This is not so much a sequel to Toller Cranston's previous memoir, Zero Tollerance, as a companion volume. Toller reflects more deeply on his truly extraordinary experiences. He describes both the women and the men he has known and how they shaped and influenced him. He looks frankly at fame, how he lusted after it, luxuriated in it, and then perhaps either lost it or let it go. There are skating stories and stories from the world of art, there are stories of good times and of bad, high times and low. There are portraits of extraordinary people who have shaped and colored his life, and parting thoughts about his retirement and about the condition of skating today. But this is chiefly an entertaining look back on the first half of an eventful, unusual life by a great artist and performer.