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The Wrestling
Simon Garfield
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Description for The Wrestling
Paperback. When British wrestling was dropped from the ITV schedules in the mid-1980s it left the giants of the ring - Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Kendo Nagasaki - bereft. This book is a classic account of the men and women who used to fight each other for pride and money. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: WSTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 206.
'A brilliant oral history of the golden age of British wrestling and magnificent wider social history.' Richard Osman
The classic account of the men and women who used to fight each other for pride and money. Simon Garfield brings them to life in one last glorious bout of jealousy, myth, revenge, passion and deep devotion.
When British wrestling was dropped from the ITV schedules in the mid-80s it left the giants of the ring - Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Kendo Nagasaki - bereft. This is the true story of the circuit, the big names and their rivalries, told ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
210g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571236763
SKU
V9780571236763
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About Simon Garfield
Simon Garfield was born in 1960. He is the author of Expensive Habits: The Dark Side of the Industry (1986), The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS (1994), which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize, The Wrestling (1996), The Nation's Favourite: The True Adventures of Radio 1(1998), the best-selling Mauve (2000), described by the Daily Telegraph as ... Read more
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