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The definitive literary guide to mixed martial arts

Kerry Handley’s riotously entertaining and perceptive Thrown makes something marvellous from the triumphs and disasters of fighters Sean Huffman and Erik Koch

4 July 2015

9:00 AM

4 July 2015

9:00 AM

Thrown Kerry Howley

Hamish Hamilton, pp.288, £14.99, ISBN: 9780241207277

This is the best book you’ll ever read about mixed martial arts fighting; and this will still be the case even if it’s not the first book you’ve ever read about mixed martial arts fighting. Kerry Howley’s debut is a riotously entertaining and piercingly perceptive account of the contrasting lives and dreams of a pair of Iowa-based fighters whose battles in the ‘Octagon’ become the vehicle for a philosophical treatise on the nature of glory.

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