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Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man Guts, Glory, and Blood in the World's Greatest Game

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ISBN-10: 0312547692

ISBN-13: 9780312547691

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jay Atkinson

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 If all sports are really about war, then rugby is a heart-thumping epic of bayonet charges and hand-to-hand fighting.  In Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man, bestselling author Jay Atkinson describes his thirty-five year odyssey in the sport-from his rough and rowdy days at the University of Florida, through the intrigue of various foreign tours, club championships, and all star selections, up to his current stint with the freewheeling Vandals Rugby Club out of Los Angeles. Jay has played in more than 500 matches, for which he's suffered three broken ribs, a detached retina, a fractured cheekbone and orbital bone, four deadened teeth, and a dislocated ankle. Written in the style of Siegried…    
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Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 4/24/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

He is a widely published writer whose first novel, Caveman Politics, was critically acclaimed. His pieces have appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Glove, and the Boston Herald. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times and won Boston magazine's fiction contest. He lives in Methuen, Massachusetts.