Unraveling Desire and Danger: Why ‘Rough House’ Will Keep You Turning Pages Late Into the Night
Hunter feverishly seeks the fame and fortune his former pro wrestler father never attained and who never wanted Hunter — a straight-A student and amateur wrestling scholarship holder — to ever try to attain. Miller’s gritty yet compassionate portraiture includes the backstories of scores of other bottom-rung, blue-collar Nobodies whom Hunter encounters in and out of the ring, all of them dreaming, drugging, and bleeding to become Somebodies someday. The author’s masterful tapestry of these converging narratives offers an insightful commentary about our country’s most cherished myths and mythmakers, as viewed within the context of our national obsession for “the spectacular amalgamation of theatre and sport” that is pro wrestling.
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