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Grimmish / Michael Winkler.
Van Pelt Library PR9619.4.W595 G75 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winkler, Michael, 1966- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boxers (Sports)--Fiction.
- Boxers (Sports).
- Pain--Fiction.
- Pain.
- Mentally ill--Fiction.
- Mentally ill.
- Masculinity--Fiction.
- Masculinity.
- Australia--Fiction.
- Australia.
- Genre:
- Experimental fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 214 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : Coach House Books, [2023]
- Summary:
- "'I just don't believe that man is made of flesh and blood.' -- Jack Johnson, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Pain was Joe Grim's self-expression, his livelihood and reason for being. In 1908-09 the Italian-American boxer toured Australia, losing fights but amazing crowds with his showmanship and extraordinary physical resilience. On the east coast Grim played a supporting role in the Jack Johnson-Tommy Burns Fight of the Century; on the west coast he was committed to an insane asylum. In between he played with the concept and reality of pain in a shocking manner not witnessed before or since. Michael Winkler braids the story of Grim in Australia and meditations on pain with thoughts on masculinity and vulnerability, plus a talking goat and questionable jokes, in a haymaker of experimental non/fiction."-- Provided by publisher.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Winkler, Michael, 1966- Grimmish.
- ISBN:
- 9781552454664
- 1552454665
- OCLC:
- 1345217560
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