Thrown
Autor Kerry Howleyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 mar 2016
Step into the octagon . . .
Welcome to the heart of the fight. Three years and two fighters - one ageing, tired, struggling from one backstreet dive to another; and one young, fast, going places, punching it out in packed Las Vegas arenas. One on the way up and the other on the way out. And they fight and they fight - while through it all Kit, a spacetaker, a ghost haunting their cages, follows and assists them, drawn to the dark allure of men living from blow to blow, where the true battle is never with their opponent but always and forever with themselves.
'The most fascinating book I've read this year.The precision of Howley's prose reminds me ofJoan Didion or David Foster Wallace'Time
'A poetic portrait of a bloody American subculture'O, The Oprah Magazine
'The fight book of our generationhas landed . . . a fantastic debut'The Week
'Compulsively readable'The New York Times
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241207291
ISBN-10: 0241207290
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241207290
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Kerry
Howley
is
the
author
ofThrown,
published
by
Hamish
Hamilton.
Howley's
essays,
reviews,
stories
and
reportage
have
appeared
inHarper's,The
New
York
Times
Magazine,Slate,The
Atlantic,The
Wall
Street
Journal,Vice.com,
and
frequently
inBookforum.
Her
short
story
'Pretty
Citadel'
was
published
inThe
Paris
Reviewin
Autumn
2011.
She
holds
an
MFA
from
the
University
of
Iowa,
where
she
was
admitted
as
an
Arts
Fellow
and
subsequently
served
as
the
2012
Provost's
Visiting
Writer
in
Nonfiction.
Howley
teaches
creative
writing
at
the
University
of
Tennessee
at
Chattanooga.
Recenzii
Publisher's
description.
A
genre-bending
work
of
literary
reportage.
The
profound
and
the
absurd
come
face
to
face
in
this
extraordinary
auto-fiction
exposé,
as
a
bookish
young
woman
stumbles
across
the
bizarre
underworld
of
professional
cage
fighting.
Unexpectedly
hooked
on
the
spectacle,
she
befriends
fighters
and
chases
fights,
becoming
ever
more
entangled
in
the
macabre,
blackly
comic
and
ultimately
heart-breaking
drama
of
the
octagon.
Compulsively readable
Truly gripping, stunning
Mesmerising
An exciting brand of nonfiction depicting the darker side of the American dream. An intimate, front-row look at two stories of hope, glory, and violence
Best book I read this year
Nothing else felt as strong and smart and fresh and honest this year - nothing else whipped my head around the way something great and truly new does
An intelligent, funny, and utterly captivating look at a surprising subculture
Throwndoes what all literature aspires to do - to bring us into a community, a universe, we did not know we cared about and in the end leave us shattered and revealed
The most fascinating book I've read this year. The precision of Howley's prose reminds me of Joan Didion or David Foster Wallace
The fight book of our generation has landed.Thrownis a fantastic debut
A poetic portrait of a bloody American subculture, and a knockout of a nonfiction debut
As dark and funny as anything I have read this year
Kerry Howley embarks on a quest for ecstasy delivered in an unexpected forum: MMA fights. This transfixing nonfiction narrative combines bloody play-by-play with philosophical inquiry, delivering serious punches. Welcome to the Octagon
Compulsively readable
Truly gripping, stunning
Mesmerising
An exciting brand of nonfiction depicting the darker side of the American dream. An intimate, front-row look at two stories of hope, glory, and violence
Best book I read this year
Nothing else felt as strong and smart and fresh and honest this year - nothing else whipped my head around the way something great and truly new does
An intelligent, funny, and utterly captivating look at a surprising subculture
Throwndoes what all literature aspires to do - to bring us into a community, a universe, we did not know we cared about and in the end leave us shattered and revealed
The most fascinating book I've read this year. The precision of Howley's prose reminds me of Joan Didion or David Foster Wallace
The fight book of our generation has landed.Thrownis a fantastic debut
A poetic portrait of a bloody American subculture, and a knockout of a nonfiction debut
As dark and funny as anything I have read this year
Kerry Howley embarks on a quest for ecstasy delivered in an unexpected forum: MMA fights. This transfixing nonfiction narrative combines bloody play-by-play with philosophical inquiry, delivering serious punches. Welcome to the Octagon