TY  - BOOK
AU  - Winkler,Michael
TI  - Grimmish
SN  - 9781922571472 (paperback)
AV  - GV1132.G75 W56 2022
U1  - 796.83092 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Glebe, NSW
PB  - Puncher and Wattmann
KW  - Grim, Joe,
KW  - Grim, Joe
KW  - Grim, Joe.
KW  - Boxing matches
KW  - Australia
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Boxers (Sports)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Americans
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Boxing
KW  - Biography
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography & Memoir (Australia,USA)
KW  - Biographical fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
N1  - Originally published: Westbourne Books, 2021; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - 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
ER  -