Bench Press

Sven Lindqvist (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2003
Granta Books (Verlag)
978-1-86207-572-6 (ISBN)

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Lindqvist takes us through his experiences of the gym and tells us the entertaining and bizarre history of bodybuilding and meditates on what the sport's increased popularity tells us about contemporary society.

In the late 1980s, Sven Lindqvist fell into conversation with an evangelical bodybuilder while relaxing in the sauna after his weekly swim. The conversation challenged Lindqvist's view of the sport as macho and vain and individualistic and led to his first attendance at the local gym. In Bench Press, Lindqvist takes us through his own journey in the gym, but also tells us the entertaining and bizarre history of bodybuilding and meditates on what its increased popularity tells us about contemporary society.

Sven Lindqvist was born in Stockholm in 1932 where he still lives, and has travelled extensively through Asia, Africa and Latin America. He is the author of A History of Bombing, 'Exterminate All The Brutes' and Desert Divers, shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Award.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.1.2003
Übersetzer	Sarah Death
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	136 x 216 mm
Gewicht	170 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Fitness / Aerobic / Bodybuilding
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
ISBN-10	1-86207-572-7 / 1862075727
ISBN-13	978-1-86207-572-6 / 9781862075726
Zustand	Neuware