![]() ![]() " writing is powerful and magnetic, with a quality that suggests it has been worked over to strip it bare of ornamentation but still leave it with a rare beauty that the greatest sportspeople, in a ring, on a court or on a pitch, can achieve." - The Guardian ![]() "A striking, original, and coarsely poetic portrayal of a young man's athletic and emotional quest." - Publishers Weekly, boxed and starred review ![]() "Habash has created a fascinating protagonist in Stephen, a hard-driven athlete with a convincingly thoughtful mind." -The New York Times Sunday Book Review Writing like this takes guts." - Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist "What a strange, strange, utterly intriguing novel. Profane, manic, and tipping into the uncanny, it's a story of loneliness, obsession, and the drive to leave a mark.įinalist for the 2018 Young Lions Fiction Award F oxcatcher meets The Art of Fielding, Stephen Florida follows a college wrestler in his senior season, when every practice, every match, is a step closer to greatness and a step further from sanity. ![]()
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