A Fighter's Heart

Sam Sheridan

• 01 februari 2009
• 9781843547334

Samenvatting:

After the success of Fight Club and Neill Strauss's The Game comes the next big non-fiction book for men, A Fighter's Heart, the real Fight Club. Already a huge success in the US, this raw, bone-crunching memoir of one man's adventures in fighting has all the ingredients for a huge paperback sale.

'Sam Sheridan's brilliant, brutal book holds up a mirror to the soul of the modern male, and finds that some men will always and forever yearn to be tested in the fire of combat.' Tony Parsons

After a series of adventurous jobs around the world, Sam Sheridan found himself in Australia, cash-rich and with time on his hands to spend it. It occurred to him that he could finally explore a long-held obsession: fighting. Within a year, he was in Bangkok training with the Thailand's greatest kickboxing champion and stepping through the ropes for his first professional bout. But one fight wasn't enough, and Sheridan set out to test himself on an epic journey into how and why we fight, facing Olympic boxers, Brazilian jiu-jitsu stars, and Ultimate Fighting champions. A Fighter's Heart delivers an insightful look at violence both as a career and as a spectator sport, a behind-the-pageantry glimpse of athletes at the top of their terrifying game. A Fighter's Heart is a dizzying first-hand account of what it is like to reach the peak of finely disciplined personal aggression.

'[Sheridan's] accounts of the gruelling work-outs he endured and the characters he met form the compelling core of the book... Watch out, he's still in training.' Independent on Sunday

'A writer who can intelligently explain his love of fighting.' Dazed and Confused

After a series of adventurous jobs around the world, Sam Sheridan found himself in Australia, cash-rich and with time on his hands to spend it. It occurred to him that he could finally explore a long-held obsession: fighting. Within a year, he was in Bangkok training with Thailand's greatest kickboxing champion and stepping through the ropes for his first professional bout. But one fight wasn't enough, and Sheridan set out to test himself on an epic journey into how and why we fight, facing Olympic boxers, Brazilian jiu-jitsu stars, and Ultimate Fighting champions.

A Fighter's Heart is a dizzying first-hand account of what it is like to reach the peak of finely disciplined personal aggression.