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Winkler, Michael,

Grimmish / Michael Winkler. - Glebe, NSW : Puncher and Wattmann, 2022. - xii, 207 pages ; 24 cm.

Originally published: Westbourne Books, 2021.

Includes bibliographical references.

Pain was Joe Grim's self-expression, his livelihood and reason for being. In 1908-09 the Italian-American boxer toured Australia, losing fights but amazing crowds with his showmanship and extraordinary physical resilience. On the east coast Grim played a supporting role in the Jack Johnson-Tommy Burns Fight of the Century; on the west coast he was committed to an insane asylum. In between he played with the concept and reality of pain in a shocking manner not witnessed before or since.

Miles Franklin Award, Longlist 2022.

ISBN: 9781922571472 (paperback)

LCCN: jb2022021272

Subjects--Personal Names:
Grim, Joe, 1881-1939.
Grim, Joe--Fiction.
Grim, Joe.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Boxing matches--Australia.
Biographies.
Boxers (Sports)--Fiction.
Americans--Australia--Fiction.
Australian fiction.
Boxing--Australia.
Boxing--Australia--Fiction.
Boxers (Sports)--Biography.
Boxers (Sports)--United States--Biography.

Subjects--Index Terms: Biography & Memoir (Australia,USA)

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Australian fiction
Biographies
Biographical fiction
Historical fiction

LC Class. No.: GV1132.G75 / W56 2022

Dewey Class. No.: 796.83092 A823.4