Bliss, Remembered

With Bliss, Remembered, the celebrated Frank Deford has produced a work of literature that ranks with the best of his many novels, including Everybody¿s All American, which Sports Illustrated ranked as one of the twenty-five best sports books of all time. In Bliss, Remembered, Deford explores new territory as he tells two love stories from the perspective of a beautiful should-have-been Olympic champion named Sydney Stringfellow.

At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Sydney begins an intense love affair with a German, but the affair abruptly ends when political forces tear them apart. Back in the United States, Sydney¿daring, vulnerable, and memorable¿is left healing her broken heart when a striking American begins to pursue her. In Deford¿s tender novel, the simplicity and honesty of choices of the heart clash with a brutal time¿a time when choices seemed so dire in the enveloping shadows of a changing world.