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Dark Trade: Lost in Boxing, McRae, Donald
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Artist
- McRae, Donald
- Brand
- N/A
- Type
- Paperback
- EAN
- 9781840189568
- ISBN
- 1840189568
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- Release Title
- Dark Trade: Lost in Boxing
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Mainstream Publishing Company, The Limited
ISBN-10
1840189568
ISBN-13
9781840189568
eBay Product ID (ePID)
46484252
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dark Trade : Lost in Boxing
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Boxing, Sports Psychology
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Sports & Recreation
Book Series
Mainstream Sport Ser.
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
18.3 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"Donald McRae, in thrall to a 30-year boxing addiction, has seen countless fights both minor and major in England and the United States, and is on friendly, even intimate, terms with a number of boxers and their associates. Dark Trade bears comparison with Thomas Hauser's The Black Lights…but Dark Trade is more picaresque in form, taking the reader ringside in vividly rendered, and in several cases graphically brutal, matches…McRae brings to the highly charged, obsessive world of professional boxing a novelist's eye and ear for revealing detail and convincingly recalled dialogue…Engaging, sympathetically rendered, emotionally direct…This is an impassioned book." -Joyce Carol Oates, Los Angeles Times, Donald McRae, in thrall to a 30-year boxing addiction, has seen countless fights both minor and major in England and the United States, and is on friendly, even intimate, terms with a number of boxers and their associates. Dark Trade bears comparison with Thomas Hauser's The Black Lights...but Dark Trade is more picaresque in form, taking the reader ringside in vividly rendered, and in several cases graphically brutal, matches..McRae brings to the highly charged, obsessive world of professional boxing a novelist's eye and ear for revealing detail and convincingly recalled dialogue...Engaging, sympathetically rendered, emotionally direct...This is an impassioned book., Donald McRae's newly updated Dark Trade remains a classic of sports writing-a vividly personal journey through the highly charged world of the professional fight game.
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
796.83
Synopsis
This is no ordinary book about boxing. Dark Trade is Donald McRae's vivid personal journey through the intense and forbidding world of the professional fight game. Tyson, Bruno, Hamed, Benn, Eubank, Watson, Jones, De La Hoya and Toney confide in him their fears and longings. Their fantastic, almost mythological stories are uncovered in new and striking detail, derived from the hundreds of hours McRae has spent in their company.With wit, compassion and lucidity, Dark Trade examines the way in which race and violence beat at the heart of our society, and asks what forces men to pursue this most brutal kind of stardom, what drives their outrageous ambition., "Dark Trade" is Donald McRae's illuminating five-year journey through the intense and forbidding world of the professional fight game. Tyson, Bruno, Hamed, Benn, Eubank, Holyfield, Watson, Jones, and Toney confide in him their fears and ambitions. Their fantastic, almost mythological stories are uncovered in new and striking detail, drawn from the hundreds of hours McRae has spent in their company. With wit, compassion, and lucidity, "Dark Trade" examines the ways in which race and violence beat at the heart of American and British society and what it is that drives men to pursue this most brutal kind of fame.
LC Classification Number
GV1132.M84
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