Endorsed by Bret Easton Ellis and by Chuck Palahniuk, ‘ Rust and Bone‘ explores violence, masculinity and life on the most extreme of margins.’Craig Davidson is a young author who already displays the sure footedness of a seasoned pro, and the best of these tightly balled, arrestingly visceral explorations of machismo’s dark recesses uncoil with concussive power’ ‘The Times’. Yet the hostility of Davidson’s fictional universe is tempered by the humanity he invests in his characters, by his subtle awareness of their motivation, and by his eye for telling detail. Dogs fight to the death, and in desperate arenas men with broken hands slug it out in bouts that have less to do with sport than with survival. In steel tipped prose, Craig Davidson conjures a savage world populated by prizefighters, gamblers, sex addicts, and a disappearing magician. Norton in the United States, Penguin in Canada, Albin Michel in France, and Picador in the United Kingdom. He is the author of the acclaimed short story collection Rust and Bone, which was published by W.W. Inevitably, these two young men’s paths will cross.Ĭraig Davidson was born in Toronto and now lives in Calgary, Alberta.

He trains with his father and uncle, who believe a gift like his can change their lives, but he struggles under the weight of their expectations. Rob Tully, a working class teenager from upstate New York, is a born boxer. But after a vicious beating shakes his world, he descends into the realm of hardcore bodybuilders and boxing gyms, seeking to become a real man, reveling in suffering. ‘While the novel’s brutal fights will entice readers of other virile allegories like Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club, Davidson’s story takes a more nuanced, realistic approach.’ Kirkus ReviewsĮverything has been handed to Paul Harris, the son of a wealthy southern Ontario businessman. The Fighter is an essential novel, destined for cult status at the very least.’ Irvine Welsh Craig Davidson asks and answers some big, uncomfortable questions about the nature of our humanity. It reminds me how vacuous, banal and insipid most highly touted fiction is. ‘How to Allocate Your Free Time This Month : Devouring Craig Davidson’s gruesome debut novel, The Fighter.’ Esquire ‘Fans of Palahniuk and Irvine Welsh will relish the graphic fight sequences and gritty social commentary.’ Rocky Mountain News

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