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.
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...engaging and sympathetically rendered... picaresque in form, taking the reader ringside to vividly rendered, 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. This is an impassioned book.... an immensely readable book that anyone with an interest in boxing will want to own. -- The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, Joyce Carol Oates
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Donald McRae is also the author of Winter Colours: Changing Seasons in World Rugby and Nothing Personal: The Business of Sex.
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Boxing Writing As Serious Literature,
By Alex Hutchinson "Author of Almost Columbine" (Grove City, Florida) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE)
This review is from: Dark Trade: Lost in Boxing (Mainstream Sport) (Paperback)
I probably should have written a review of this book years ago. Dark Trade was my introduction to the idea that writing about the sport of boxing could be serious literature. I was writing about the sport at the time and in Donald McRae, I found a good example of what I wanted to emulate. His brief pugilistic memoirs absorb the reader into a world where seedy contracts and menacing intentions are held at bay by the humanity gleaming in each fighters eyes. His star struck meeting with Sugar Ray Leonard, his odd encounters with the ambiguous Mike Tyson and his awkward descriptions of the charisma of Nigel Benn are all to be held with the highest regard.Only two years after reading Dark Trade I strived to reach that same depth when I wrote my first boxing novel 'Virgin Gloves'. Had I reached my goal and brought insight to the sport I loved? Well, one day I got an e-mail from Donald McRae and he gave me by far the best endorsement possible. I thank him for that glorious moment in my writing career and I thank him for writing this fantastic book.
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A journey through the boxing world of the 90s.,
This review is from: Dark Trade: Lost in Boxing (Mainstream Sport) (Paperback)
A nicely written account of the author's personal journey through boxing in the 90s. The author vividly describes his encounters with some of the big names in the sport: Oscar De La Hoya, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Roy Jones, Jr. and especially, James Toney. What's interesting about these sections of the book is that McRae really seems to get to know the people he's writing about and is able to reveal sides of their characters that aren't normally seen. I read this over a weekend, neglecting everything else I had planned to do because I couldn't put it down.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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a book about boxing that becomes a great deal more,
By A Customer
This review is from: Dark Trade: Lost in Boxing (Paperback)
the "professional" reviews of this book all talk about its relevance for people with an interest in boxing. certainly that might lead the casual buyer to the book but it quickly becomes clear that this remarkable work provides a door to an underworld of british and american subculture that is normally hermetically sealed to the rest of us. quite how mcrae pulls off this connection to an alien society is never quite clear but the overall effect and the material that he refines is an extraordinary trip into motivations and manipulations that leave the reader wondering if a fiction might not be easier to deal with
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