Headshot (Bullwinkel Rita)(Paperback / softback)

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024

A Book of the Year for the New York Times, Guardian, Telegraph and The Times

Headshot is the story of the eight best teenage girl boxers in the United States, told over the two days of a championship tournament and structured as a series of face-offs. As the girls’ pasts and futures collide, the specific joy and violence of the sport comes to life with electric energy, and a portrait emerges of the desire, envy, perfectionism, madness and sheer physical pleasure that motivates each of these young women to fight.

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