# Touching from a Distance

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{{Short description|1995 biography by Deborah Curtis}}
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| image          = Touching from a Distance.jpg
| caption  = First edition
| author         = [Deborah Curtis](/source/Deborah_Curtis)
| country        = United Kingdom
| language       = English
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| genre          = [Biography](/source/Biography)
| publisher      = [Faber and Faber](/source/Faber_and_Faber) 
| release_date   = 1995 
| media_type     = Print ([Paperback](/source/Paperback))
| pages          = 208 pp
| isbn           = 0-57117445-0
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'''''Touching from a Distance''''' is a biography written by [Deborah Curtis](/source/Deborah_Curtis).  It details her life and marriage with [Ian Curtis](/source/Ian_Curtis), lead singer of the 1970s British [post-punk](/source/post-punk) band [Joy Division](/source/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](/source/epileptic_seizures) and [depression](/source/Clinical_depression)) that likely led to his [suicide](/source/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](/source/Faber_and_Faber)|location=London|isbn=0-57117445-0}}</ref> The foreword was written by the music journalist [Jon Savage](/source/Jon_Savage).

The title is a reference to a line in one of Joy Division's most popular songs, "[Transmission](/source/Transmission_(song))". 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](/source/Anton_Corbijn)'s film ''[Control](/source/Control_(2007_film))'' (2007), for which Deborah Curtis was a co-producer. The role of Deborah was played by [Samantha Morton](/source/Samantha_Morton).

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

{{Joy Division}}

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