Wrestliana
ISBN-13: 9781910296899
Contributor(s): Toby Litt
Subject: Memoirs: Literary
Publisher Imprint: Galley Beggar Press
Publication Date: 03-05-2018
Format: Paperback
Availability: In stock
£9.99
About the book
Toby Litt's ancestor, William Litt, was a champion Cumberland Wrestler but also almost certainly a smuggler - and definitely published poet and novelist. A huge and fascinating man, William was also troubling: he ended his life in poverty and exile. Using the nineteenth century as a guide, Wrestliana asks vital questions about modern-day masculinity, competition, and success. It is a beautiful portrait of two men and their different worlds, full of surprises and sympathy, and a wonderful evocation of a lost place and time.