Touching from a Distance

{{Short description|1995 biography by Deborah Curtis}} {{Infobox book |  | name = Touching From a Distance | image = Touching from a Distance.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Deborah Curtis | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = | genre = Biography | publisher = Faber and Faber | release_date = 1995 | media_type = Print (Paperback) | pages = 208 pp | isbn = 0-57117445-0 | dewey= | congress= | oclc= | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} '''''Touching from a Distance''''' is a biography written by Deborah Curtis. It details her life and marriage with Ian Curtis, lead singer of the 1970s British post-punk band Joy Division. In the book, Deborah Curtis speaks of Ian's infidelity, their troubled marriage, Ian's volatile and sometimes troubled personality, and his health problems (which included epileptic seizures and depression) that likely led to his suicide in 1980, on the eve of Joy Division's first United States tour.<ref>{{cite book|author=Curtis, Deborah |year=1995|title=Touching from a Distance - Ian Curtis and Joy Division|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IeSmQAAACAAJ| publisher=Faber and Faber|location=London|isbn=0-57117445-0}}</ref> The foreword was written by the music journalist Jon Savage.

The title is a reference to a line in one of Joy Division's most popular songs, "Transmission". The appendix contains four sections: Discography, Lyrics, Unseen Lyrics, and Gig List. The Unseen Lyrics section contains songs that either were not recorded or finished.<ref>See [https://books.google.com/books?id=LmSwBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT5 ''Contents''].</ref>

==Adaptation== The book has been used as a reference for Anton Corbijn's film ''Control'' (2007), for which Deborah Curtis was a co-producer. The role of Deborah was played by Samantha Morton.

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==External links== * [https://books.google.com/books?id=LmSwBAAAQBAJ Excerpts] on Google Books from 2014 edition. {{ISBN|0-57132241-7}}. {{ISBN|978-0-571-32241-1}}.

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