Bench Press

Sven Lindqvist author Sarah Death translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Granta Books

Published:23rd Jan '03

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Lindqvist takes us through his experiences of the gym and tells us the entertaining and bizarre history of bodybuilding and meditates on what the sport's increased popularity tells us about contemporary society.

In the late 1980s, Sven Lindqvist fell into conversation with an evangelical bodybuilder while relaxing in the sauna after his weekly swim. The conversation challenged Lindqvist's view of the sport as macho and vain and individualistic and led to his first attendance at the local gym. In Bench Press, Lindqvist takes us through his own journey in the gym, but also tells us the entertaining and bizarre history of bodybuilding and meditates on what its increased popularity tells us about contemporary society.

ISBN: 9781862075726

Dimensions: 216mm x 136mm x 9mm

Weight: 170g

176 pages