Dark trade : lost in boxing
McRae, Donald, 1961-2014
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Total copies: 1
McRae tracks the strange and interlocking lives of the most extraordinary figures in contemporary boxing and reveals how they are haunted by themes of race and celebrity, poverty and wealth, violence and sex, crime and death. WINNER OF THE 1996 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE. In the early 1990s, Donald McRae set out to discover the truth about the intense and forbidding world of professional boxing. Travelling around the United States and Britain, he was welcomed into the inner sanctums of some of the greatest fighters of the period - men such as Mike Tyson, Chris Eubank, Oscar de la Hoya, Frank Bruno, Evander Holyfield and Naseem Hamed among them. They opened up to him, revealing unforgettable personal stories from both inside and outside the ring, and explaining why it is that some are driven to compete in this most brutal of sports, risking their health and even their lives. The result is a classic account of boxing that remains as fresh and entertaining as when it was first published 20 years ago. McRae approaches his subjects with wit, compassion and insight, and the result was a book that was a deserved winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year prize.
Main title:
Dark trade : lost in boxing / Donald McRae.
Author:
McRae, Donald, 1961-, author
Edition:
Updated edition.
Imprint:
London : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Collation:
xii, 606 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Previous edition: Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2005.
ISBN:
9781471135378 (pbk)9781471135385 (ebook)
Dewey class:
796.830922796.8309 MCR
LC class:
GV1133
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
376670