Chase Your Shadow: The Trials of Oscar Pistorius

Harper Collins, New York, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. This is the first USA edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 393 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. Edges browned slightly. Library stamps etc only on endpapers, half-title page.. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. The definitive account of the rise and fall of South African Olympic and Gold Medal-winning Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, from his personal and athletic success to the murder charge that rocked the world and put both the man, and post-Apartheid South Africa, on trial.Oscar Pistorius made history as the first amputee to compete against able-bodied runners at the 2012 London Olympics. A hero in his native South Africa, the "Blade Runner" as he is known for his futuristic prosthetic legs, became a global icon of resilience and determination.But less than a year later, Pistorius rocked the world once again when he shot his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, through a closed bathroom door in the early hours of February14, 2013. Charged with murder, he claimed self-defense, contending that he had acted in a blind panic, imagining an intruder had broken in. But as the investigation moved to trial-during which the prosecution sought to prove that he killed her in a rage after an argument-a picture emerged of a traumatized individual fascinated with guns and assailed, behind the heroic facade, by anguish and self-doubt. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: True Crime; South Africa; 2000s; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9780062297068. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9512. . 9780062297068