Dark Trade

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>McRae brings to the highly charged obsessive world of professional boxing a novelist's eye and ear for revealing detail and convincingly recalled dialogue. This is an impassioned book.-Joyce Carol Oates <em>Los Angeles Times</em></strong></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Dark Trade: Lost in Boxing</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> by Donald McRae award-winning author of twelve non-fiction books and staff writer for </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Guardian</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is widely considered of one of the best boxing books all time.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This is a new edition released in the United States for the first time that includes a new chapter by the author plus a stunning cover that features a painting of boxer James Toney by noted boxing artist Amanda Kelley.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>There is no other sport like boxing. Over twenty years ago Donald McRae set out across the United States and his adopted home Britain to find deeper meaning in the brutal trade that had transfixed him since he was a young man. The result is a stunning chronicle that captures not only McRae's compelling personal journey through the world of professional prizefighting but also the stories of some of its biggest names in boxing-James Toney Mike Tyson Evander Holyfield Oscar De La Hoya Naseem Hamed Roy Jones Jr. and others.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Singular in his ability to uncover the emotional forces that drive men to get into the ring McRae brilliantly exposes the hopes and fears and obsessions of these legendary fighters while revealing some of his own along the way. What he shares with them most he comes to realize is that he is hopelessly and willingly lost in boxing.</span></p><p></p>