Headlock
- ISBN-10
- 1565122666
- ISBN-13
- 9781565122666
- Series
- Headlock
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 265
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-05-12
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books
- Author
- Adam Berlin
Description
A powerful debut novel. --Booklist, starred review
"The crowded bar had made space an I could hear other people screaming byt no one came near me. It was a smaller circle than the one I had wrestled in but it was a circle and I went to work. I turned him around and pulled him to me, put a half nelson on him, forced his neck down. The circle opened up. There was a free space at the bar and I drove him forward, drove his face into the side of the bar. I moved my hand down his back and between his legs, picked him up and held him there, feeling his weight above my head, feeling the power in my muscles and I threw him to the floor. I wiped my shoe across the blood, lifted my foot and brought it down and brought it down, triumphant, foot on the back of a fallen opponent like a classical statue, like in the pictures my college wrestling coach showed the team at the beginning of each new season. White marble figures graceful in victory." --from Headlock
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