Dark Trade by Donald Mcrae

Dark Trade by Donald Mcrae

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An examination of the shadowy world of boxing. Donald McRae tracks the strange and interlocking lives of contemporary figures such as Mike Tyson, Naseem Hamed and Don King, and reveals how they are haunted by themes of race and celebrity, poverty and wealth, violence and sex, crime and death.

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Dark Trade by Donald Mcrae

An examination of the shadowy world of boxing. Donald McRae tracks the strange and interlocking lives of contemporary figures such as Mike Tyson, Naseem Hamed and Don King, and reveals how they are haunted by themes of race and celebrity, poverty and wealth, violence and sex, crime and death.
Outstanding.. Captures the drama, dedication and inevitable despair - Daily Telegraph

An extraordinary achievement ... Will become one of boxing's standard texts - Independent on Sunday

An impressive and powerfully engaging survey of boxing - Guardian

All the magic and misery of boxing, the drama and the dedication and the inevitable despair of the modern-day gladiators - Frances Edmonds
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ISBN 13 9780747258698
ISBN 10 0747258694
Title Dark Trade
Author Donald Mcrae
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Headline Publishing Group
Year published 1998-07-02
Number of pages 384
Prizes Winner of William Hill Sports Book of the Year 1996
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