Becky Lynch: The Man (Unabridged)
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- 25,99 €
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- 25,99 €
Publisher Description
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
This compelling and candid memoir from WWE superstar Rebecca Quin—a.k.a. The Man, a.k.a. Becky Lynch—delves into her earliest wrestling days, her scrappy beginnings, and her meteoric rise to fame.
Raised in Dublin, Ireland, in a devoutly Catholic family, Rebecca Quin constantly invented new ways to make her mother worry—roughhousing with the neighborhood kids, hosting secret parties while her parents were away, enrolling in a warehouse wrestling school, nearly breaking her neck and almost kneecapping a WWE star before her own wrestling career even began—and she was always in search of a thrilling escape from the ordinary.
Rebecca’s childhood love of wrestling set her on an unlikely path. With few female wrestlers to look to for guidance, Rebecca pursued a wrestling career hoping to change the culture and move it away from the antiquated disrespect so often directed at the elite female athletes who grace the ring. Even as a teenager, she knew that she would stop at nothing to earn a space among the greatest wrestlers of our time and to pave a new path for female fighters.
Culled from decades of journal entries, Rebecca’s memoir offers a raw, exclusive, and honest depiction of the complex woman behind the character Rebecca Quin plays on TV.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Climb into the ring with WWE superstar Becky Lynch in her body slam of a memoir. Before she became “The Man,” Rebecca Quin broke moulds just hitting the mats with the boys. Quin writes with total candour about her young life and the events that catapulted her to fame—and we definitely related to her awkward, insecure, and sometimes hard-partying youth. But she’s just as earnest when she writes about what it felt like to find her calling and dedicate herself to a career in wrestling. Along the way, she goes down some paths we hadn’t known about before, like her handful of TV roles, her work as a stuntwoman, and her experiences with motherhood. And while a career spent in front of roaring crowds has made her a confident performer, Quin’s narration here is nuanced, personal, and cheeky fun. Whether or not you’re into wrestling, this is a story of a true trailblazer.
