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The Body Shop: Parties, Pills, and Pumping Iron - Or, My Life in the Age of Muscle Hardback - 2010 - 1st Edition

by Paul Solotaroff

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Former body builder Solotaroff looks back at the heyday of body building in the mid-1970s and even his own lowest points with a wicked sense of humor. Written with candor and sarcasm, "The Body Shop" is a memoir with all the elements of great fiction.

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As a scrawny college freshman in the mid-1970s, just before Arnold Schwarzenegger became a hero to boys everywhere and Pumping Iron became a cult hit, Paul Solotaroff discovered weights and steroids. 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.

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  • Title The Body Shop: Parties, Pills, and Pumping Iron - Or, My Life in the Age of Muscle
  • Author Paul Solotaroff
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little Brown and Company
  • Publication date 2010-07-01
  • Features Dust Cover, Price on Product - Canadian
  • ISBN 9780316011013 / 0316011010
  • Weight 1.09 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.52 x 6.44 x 1.07 in (24.18 x 16.36 x 2.72 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Masculinity, Bodybuilding - Social aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009051191
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 05/15/2010, Page 0
  • New York Times Book Review, 10/03/2010, Page 28

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.
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