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Rugby Head

Greg Bruce

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English
Penguin Books (NZ)
30 August 2022
Memoirs; Literary essays; Rugby Union
A man. A game. A life. A shambles.

In this brutally honest, hilarious and forensic examination of both himself and the game he loves, Greg Bruce tells the story of his life growing up and becoming a man in a country and culture obsessed with rugby.

From the triumphs and devastations of All Blacks performances during his 1980s and '90s childhood, his own brief and tortured playing days, his time walking among the game's legends as hospitality worker and failed sports journalist, to his subsequent years spent struggling with the recurring torment of World Cup disaster, Rugby Head otherwise tackles mental health crises, love, grief, friendship, hero worship, and especially what it means to be a modern New Zealand man.

It's the story of a life shaped in ways big and small by rugby and its greatest team, and all they stand for.

There has never been a rugby memoir like it, and probably for good reason.
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Imprint:   Penguin Books (NZ)
Country of Publication:   New Zealand
Dimensions:   Height: 209mm,  Width: 136mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   274g
ISBN:   9780143776574
ISBN 10:   0143776576
Pages:   256
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Greg Bruce is a feature writer for the New Zealand Herald's weekend magazine, Canvas. He's contributed features and columns to Metro, North & South, New Zealand Geographic, The Spinoff, Little Treasures, and elsewhere, and won four national (Canon/Voyager) media awards. His writing has been anthologised in the collections Tell You What- Great New Zealand Nonfiction (2016 and 2018) and The Spinoff Book (2019). He is married with three children and lives in Auckland. Rugby Head is his first book.

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