Donald McRae is also the author of Winter Colours- Changing Seasons in World Rugby and Nothing Personal- The Business of Sex.
Donald McRae s newly updated "Dark Trade" remains a classic of
sports writing a vividly personal journey through the highly
charged world of the professional fight game."
Donald McRae, in thrall to a 30-year boxing addiction, has seen
countless fights both minor and major in England and the United
States, and is on friendly, even intimate, terms with a number of
boxers and their associates. Dark Trade bears comparison with
Thomas Hauser s The Black Lights but Dark Trade is more picaresque
in form, taking the reader ringside in vividly rendered, and in
several cases graphically brutal, matches McRae brings to the
highly charged, obsessive world of professional boxing a novelist s
eye and ear for revealing detail and convincingly recalled dialogue
Engaging, sympathetically rendered, emotionally direct This is an
impassioned book. Joyce Carol Oates, "Los Angeles Times""
"Donald McRae, in thrall to a 30-year boxing addiction, has seen
countless fights both minor and major in England and the United
States, and is on friendly, even intimate, terms with a number of
boxers and their associates. Dark Trade bears comparison with
Thomas Hauser's The Black Lights...but Dark Trade is more
picaresque in form, taking the reader ringside in vividly rendered,
and in several cases graphically brutal, matches...McRae brings to
the highly charged, obsessive world of professional boxing a
novelist's eye and ear for revealing detail and convincingly
recalled dialogue...Engaging, sympathetically rendered, emotionally
direct...This is an impassioned book." --Joyce Carol Oates, "Los
Angeles Times"
Donald McRae's newly updated "Dark Trade" remains a classic of
sports writing--a vividly personal journey through the highly
charged world of the professional fight game.
"Donald McRae, in thrall to a 30-year boxing addiction, has seen
countless fights both minor and major in England and the United
States, and is on friendly, even intimate, terms with a number of
boxers and their associates. Dark Trade bears comparison with
Thomas Hauser's The Black Lights...but Dark Trade is more
picaresque in form, taking the reader ringside in vividly rendered,
and in several cases graphically brutal, matches..McRae brings to
the highly charged, obsessive world of professional boxing a
novelist's eye and ear for revealing detail and convincingly
recalled dialogue...Engaging, sympathetically rendered, emotionally
direct...This is an impassioned book."
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