Thrown
Author: Howley, Kerry
ISBN: 9780241207291
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 16 May 2016
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
Hilarious, insightful, compelling: a knock-out debut and a unique journey into the world of mixed martial arts fighting
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 ageing 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.
ISBN: 9780241207291
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 16 May 2016
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
Hilarious, insightful, compelling: a knock-out debut and a unique journey into the world of mixed martial arts fighting
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 ageing 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.
