Thrown - Couverture souple

Howley, Kerry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0241207290 ISBN 13 : 9780241207291

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 2016

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Compulsively readable (The New York Times)

Truly gripping, stunning (Salon)

Mesmerising (Houston Chronicle)

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 (Vogue)

Best book I read this year (Alex Massie (on twitter))

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 (Lev Grossman Salon)

An intelligent, funny, and utterly captivating look at a surprising subculture (Buzzfeed)

Thrown does 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 (Los Angeles Times)

The most fascinating book I've read this year. The precision of Howley's prose reminds me of Joan Didion or David Foster Wallace (Time)

The fight book of our generation has landed. Thrown is a fantastic debut (The Week)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In this darkly funny work of literary reportage, narrated by an excitable, semi-fictionalized graduate student named Kit, a bookish young woman insinuates herself into the lives of two cage fighters - one a young prodigy, the other an aging journeyman. Kerry Howley follows these men 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. With penetrating intelligence and wry humor, Howley exposes the profundities and absurdities of this American subculture.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0241207290
• ISBN 13: 9780241207291
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288