Dark Trade by Donald Mcrae
This personal journey through the intense world of professional boxing asks what forces men to pursue this most brutal kind of stardom. Conversations with Tyson, Bruno, Hamed, Benn, Eubank, Watson, Jones, De La Hoya and Toney are included in which they reveal their fears and longings.
McRae, Donald: - Donald McRae is an award-winning author of eleven non-fiction books which have featured compelling boxers, pioneering heart surgeons, and legendary trial lawyers. He has twice won the UK's William Hill Sports Book of the Year for Dark Trade: Lost in Boxing and In Black White: The Secret History of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens. McRae is a three-time Interviewer of the Year winner and he has twice won the Feature Writer of the Year for his work in The Guardian - most recently in 2018. Having been born and raised in South Africa, McRae's writing career began when, aged 21, he started a music magazine while working as a white teacher in the black township of Soweto. This led to him being offered work in London - and over the last thirty years his writing has been as versatile as it has been commended. His books have been praised consistently for their intimacy of tone and breadth of research as he draws the reader deep inside the heads of his extraordinary subjects. Whether writing a memoir of life under apartheid, a sporting biography or riveting drama set in the courtroom or surgical theatre, the humanity of Donald McRae's characters is always evident.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781851588749 |
| ISBN 10 | 1851588744 |
| Title | Dark Trade |
| Author | Donald Mcrae |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 1996-10-14 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Prizes | Winner of William Hill Sports Book of the Year 1996 |
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