Thrown
Howley, Kerry2016
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In a darkly funny work of literary reportage, narrated by an excitable, semi-fictionalised graduate student named Kit, a bookish young woman insinuates herself into the lives of two cage fighters - one a young prodigy, the other an ageing journeyman. Following the pair for three years through the bloody world of mixed martial arts, as they starve themselves, break bones, fail their families and form new ones in the quest to rise from remote Midwestern fairgrounds to packed Vegas arenas, this book exposes the profundities and absurdities of this American subculture.
Main title:
Thrown / Kerry Howley.
Author:
Howley, Kerry, author
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2016.
Collation:
282 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: Louisville, Kentucky: Sarabande Books Inc., 2014.
ISBN:
9780241207291 (pbk)
Dewey class:
796.8
Language:
English
BRN:
1159462
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