Stephen Florida
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'Powerful and magnetic' Guardian 'Mind blowing' Roxane Gay 'Explosive' Hanya Yanagihara 'Funny and disturbing' Lauren Groff Meet Stephen Florida: college student, amateur wrestler, visionary, outsider. Entering senior year, his sights are set on the championships. Every practice, every match, is a step closer to greatness, yet also a step further from reality. Profane, manic and tipping into the uncanny, this is Florida's chronicle of loneliness, obsession, and the drive to leave a mark. With echoes of The Art of Fielding and the film Foxcatcher, Gabe Habash's daring, revelatory debut journeys into the mind of a young man teetering between control and rage, grief and elation, genius and insanity.
Author: Gabe Habash
Format: Paperback, 304 pages, 153mm x 234mm, 270 g
Published: 2017, HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Description
'Powerful and magnetic' Guardian 'Mind blowing' Roxane Gay 'Explosive' Hanya Yanagihara 'Funny and disturbing' Lauren Groff Meet Stephen Florida: college student, amateur wrestler, visionary, outsider. Entering senior year, his sights are set on the championships. Every practice, every match, is a step closer to greatness, yet also a step further from reality. Profane, manic and tipping into the uncanny, this is Florida's chronicle of loneliness, obsession, and the drive to leave a mark. With echoes of The Art of Fielding and the film Foxcatcher, Gabe Habash's daring, revelatory debut journeys into the mind of a young man teetering between control and rage, grief and elation, genius and insanity.
Stephen Florida