Larionov
Winnipeg: Codner Books, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine / Fine. Item #005307
First printing. Full black cloth. vi, 149 pp. [8] pp. B&W photos. Fine in fine jacket. It wasn't the money that brought Igor Larionov to the National Hockey League, or the lifestyle he know would be lavish in comparison to what he had, even as a star, in the Soviet Union. "I left for a reason," he says. "Freedom to choose my own path." Thus begins this extraordinary tale of a man who chafed for a decade under the personal and professional chains of Soviet hockey, fighting it every step of the way until in 1989 - with one desperate gamble that could have ended his international hockey career - he finally won his freedom and a chance to play in the NHL with the Vancouver Canucks.
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