All the right moves

From: The Scotsman | Date: July 14, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

IN THE mid-1990s, recovering from a freak accident in which he broke his collarbone by falling off his child's slide, John Irving wrote a short memoir, The Imaginary Girlfriend, which tells you everything about his enduring and passionate love of wrestling and almost nothing about why he became a writer.

In it, he points out that at prep school a coach told him he'd never make a good wrestler: he hadn't got natural talent. But that didn't matter, since talent was over-rated anyway, and provided he buckled down and controlled the pace of the match, slowing it down to his own level, he could ...

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