Dancing Shoes is Dead by Gavin Evans
Gavin Evans became obsessed with boxing at the age of six. Infatuated with the likes of Muhammad Ali and Joe Louis, Gavin devoured everything he could find on the sport and determined to become the heavyweight champion of the world, in spite of being the smallest kid in the class. After a less than wildly successful junior career, Gavin resigned himself to the role of spectator rather than participator in the sport he loved, becoming a journalist, often with a ringside seat. But, growing up in South Africa, it was politics that filled the void, becoming Gavin's new Goliath, and it was politics into which he poured his energy and his pent-up frustrations. Recruited in the ANC underground, Gavin's active role in the struggle against apartheid would frequently place him in far greater danger than he had ever faced in the ring. Detentions, assaults, five-am meetings, spy-catching, murder attempts, all these became a part of Gavin Evans' new world. A memoir of twin passions, boxing and politics, set against the backdrop of South Africa under apartheid, this work is a vivid, incisive and poignant portrait of two disparate yet strangely connected worlds, and of the characters, brave, brutal and often bizarre, who inhabit them both.
Gavin Evans was born in London in 1960. He grew up mainly in South Africa, where he tried his hand at boxing, worked as a campaigning journalist and threw himself into the underground politics of the African National Congress. Since returning to London in 1993 he has written on politics and sport for the New York Times, Esquire, Playboy, The New Statesman, the Daily Mail and the Guardian. His biography of Naseem Hamed, Prince of the Ring, was published in 1996.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385602372 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385602375 |
| Title | Dancing Shoes is Dead |
| Author | Gavin Evans |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 2002-02-04 |
| Number of pages | 309 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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