Life and Limb

Authors:

By Justin Hocking, Jeff Knutson, Jared Jacang Maher

Format:

Paperback

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Condition: Very Good

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In print, usually dispatched within 3-4 days.

Price:

£8.99

Tagged with:

Skates, Skateboarding, Essays and Journalism

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Further Details

• Published: 1st Aug 2004
• ISBN: 193236028X
• Pages: 160

From the Publisher:

Life and Limb is a collection of writing about the art, science, and raw lust for motion that epitomize the culture of skateboarding. With fiction and essays infused with the energy, drive, and unruliness of the sport, Life and Limb documents life on the edges of experience. From eating an entire tree on a ten thousand dollar dare, to monkeywrenching a McDonalds, to accidentally setting fire to cemeteries, the pieces in this unique anthology often feature subjects far removed from skateboarding itself, yet sprung from a common source.

In these diverse narratives one finds an iconoclastic sense of creativity fostered by a lifetime spent mostly outside the bounds of team sports. In unexpected and often humorous ways, they express aesthetics common to skateboarders everywhere: a nearly spiritual devotion to a discipline that's more of a martial art than a sport, an appetite for risk that sometimes borders on the suicidal, and a youthful reluctance to resign one's self to the mundane world of commerce and responsibility. The perfect meeting of pavement and the page, Life and Limb will pin skaters to their couches and leave literary fiction fans with the feeling of flight.

Featuring writing, photography and artwork by Mark Gonzales, Ed Templeton, Michael Burnett, Scott Bourne, Lori Damiano, Dave Carnie, Andreas Trolf, Andy Jenkins, Angela Boatwright, and many more.