The Body Shop: Parties, Pills, and Pumping Iron -- Or, My Life in the Age of Muscle

Paul Solotaroff

ISBN 10: 0316011010 / ISBN 13: 9780316011013

Published by Little, Brown and Company, 2010

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pp. 304 1st edition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Body Shop: Parties, Pills, and Pumping Iron -- Or, My Life in the Age of Muscle
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316011010
• ISBN 13: 9780316011013
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In a matter of months, he grew from a dorky beanpole into a hulking behemoth, showing off his rock hard muscles first on the streets of New York City and then alongside his colorful gym-rat friends in strip clubs and in the homes of the gotham elite. It was a swinging time, when "Would you like to dance?" turned into "Your place or mine?" and the guys with the muscles had all the ladies -- until their bodies, like Solotaroff''s, completely shut down.

But this isn't the gloom-and-doom addiction one might expect -- Solotaroff looks back at even his lowest points with a wicked sense of humor, and he sends up the disco era and its excess with all the kaleidoscopic detail of Boogie Nights or Saturday Night Fever.

Written with candor and sarcasm, The Body Shop is a memoir with all the elements of great fiction and dazzlingly displays Paul Solotaroff's celebrated writing talent.

About the Author

Paul Solotaroff is a contributing editor at Men's Journal and Rolling Stone. He has written features for Vanity Fair, GQ, Vogue, and the New York Times Magazine, and he was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2004. His work has been included in Best American Sports Writing. The author of two books, Group and The House of Purple Hearts, he lives in New York City.