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Terry Davis · 1979
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What this book knows
A teenage wrestler's obsessive body-discipline becomes the crucible through which desire, identity, and first love are discovered and tested.
embodiment
I was trying to be as slow and gentle with my body as I could so that in December I'd have its loyalty.
VQ-002'You've got to work, you've got to run, you've got to study'—Carla cataloguing the relentless physical and mental demands on Louden.
VQ-008self-and-identity
Both Dad and I are pretty sure Shute is going to grind my body into the green surface of our David Thompson High School wrestling mat.
VQ-001In about seven minutes my life will be back to normal. I'll study during the day and work at night and enlarge my world a little.
VQ-015desire
We were slick with sweat and slipping around the wet sleeping-bag floor like happy seals.
VQ-011'My baby died,' she said. 'I don't believe in God, but I think it was a blessing.' 'That's good,' I said, with incredible thoughtlessness.
VQ-010Illuminates
15 published passages · book excerpt · lived experience
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