Bench Press

Bench Press

by SarahDeath (Translator), SvenLindqvist (Author)

Synopsis

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 lead 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.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
Edition: Revised
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 23 Jan 2003

ISBN 10: 1862075727
ISBN 13: 9781862075726

Media Reviews
Sven Lindqvist is one of the most original and imaginative authors working today.
Author Bio
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.