Going Fast - Elaine McCluskey

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Auteur(s) : Elaine McCluskey

Editeur : Goose Lane Editions

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/03/2009

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 376

Expédition : 454

Dimensions : 21.3 x 14.0 x 2.0

ISBN : 9780864925251

Résumé :

In this punchy, uproarious romp of a novel, the Halifax boxing world -- peopled with has-beens, wannabes, and posers dressed in spandex, leopard prints, and tie-dye -- touches gloves with the colourful world of sports reporting. Both groups need something hot with speedy delivery.

Enter a cast of misfits. Turmoil Davies, an enigmatic Trinidadian heavyweight, is poised to storm the boxing scene. Ownie Flanagan, an old-school trainer, trains men with more ambition than talent. He's looking for one real fighter before he retires and believes Turmoil is it. Scott MacDonald, a journalist assigned to the boxing beat, tries to relive his own glory days through other men's sweat.

With a wicked sense of humour, Elaine McCluskey conjures a larger-than-life world where spotty turf is defended with klutzy bravado down to the final, unpredictable ten-count.

Biographie:
Elaine McCluskey is a critically acclaimed fiction writer based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Her 2022 collection Rafael Has Pretty Eyes won the Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction. McCluskey's stories have appeared in The Antigonish Review, Room, and subterrain. The Gift Child is her seventh book of fiction....

Sommaire:
In this punchy, uproarious romp of a novel, the Halifax boxing world - peopled with has-beens, wannabes, and posers dressed in spandex, leopard prints, and tie dye - touches gloves with the colourful world of sports reporting. Both groups need something hot with speedy delivery. Enter a cast of misfits. There's Turmoil Davies, an enigmatic Trinidadian heavyweight poised to storm the Halifax boxing world. There's Ownie Flanagan, an old-school trainer who scans the obituaries for odd names and trains men with more ambition than talent. He's looking for one real fighter before he retires and believes Turmoil is it. And then there's Scott MacDonald, a journalist assigned to the boxing beat - a grotty but welcome getaway that promises to let him relive his own glory days through other men's sweat. With a wicked sense of humour, Elaine McCluskey conjures a larger-than-life world where spotty turf is defended with klutzy bravado down to the final, unpredictable ten-count....