- Fiction, Irish Americans, Sportswriters, English fiction
Fat Boy McMaster is a hopeless heavyweight boxer, but he has managed to become champion of Ireland, and his devious manager has succeeded in setting up a St Patrick Day's fight in New York against Mike Tyson. Journalist Dan Starkey is hired to cover the event.
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Classical in form, contemporary, unpretentious and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Colin Bateman
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 326
- Publisher
- HarperCollins, Distributed by Little, Brown and Co., Arcade Pub.
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780002252379
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