false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175384853m/510493.jpg 510493 2 <p>At age 26, scrawny, Oxford-educated Samuel Fussell entered a YMCA gym in New York to escape the terrors of big city life. Four years and 80 lbs. of firm, bulging muscle later, he was competing for bodybuilding titles in the "Iron Mecca" of Southern California-so weak from intense training and starvation he could barely walk. MUSCLE is the harrowing, often hilarious chronicle of Fussell's divine obsession, his search for identity in a bizarre, eccentric world of "health fascists," "gym bunnies" and "muscleheads"-and his devout, single-minded acceptance of illness, pain, nausea, and steroid-induced rage in his quest for the holy grail of physical perfection.<P> 498503 1 8 1992 Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder total:69|5:12|4:31|3:18|2:6|1:1| 69 255 87 18 4 0 false false Sat Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 21:59:23 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 21:59:40 -0800 2009
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