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4.8/5 Barnes & Noble Language English Media type Hardcover, paperback ISBN 0-452-27590-3 Page count 320 Publisher Plume | 3.9/5 Goodreads Country United States Publication date 1 March 1996 Pages 320 Originally published 1 March 1996 Genre Autobiography | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Adaptations Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story (1997) Similar Eric Marcus books, Autobiographies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Breaking the Surface is a best-selling book by Greg Louganis, co-written with Eric Marcus published in 1996. The book spent five weeks at number one on the New York Times Best Seller list.
Louganis chronicles his winning of back-to-back double gold medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics and 1988 Summer Olympics, and his self-doubt and lack of confidence that held him back personally and professionally because of concealing his sexual orientation as a gay athlete. This is about him coming out as an HIV-positive gay man.
As a follow-up to the success of the book, Canadian television and film director Steven Hilliard Stern directed Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story in 1997, starring Mario Lopez as Louganis, with Louganis also appearing in certain scenes of the television film and as narrator. Louganis also produced a video diary called Looking To the Light, which picked up where Breaking the Surface left off.