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Hitman
624 pages
A brutally honest and unvarnished look behind the curtain of professional wrestling, told with startling candor.
What it feels like
Built from decades of personal tape recordings and written entirely without collaborators, this memoir offers a startlingly authentic journey into the world of professional wrestling. The reading experience is steady and deeply reflective, anchored by a voice that is brutally honest about life both inside and outside the ring. It strips away the performative gloss of sports entertainment to reveal the raw, perceptive reality of a dedicated athlete. The prose feels unvarnished and intensely personal, carrying the reader through the triumphs and harsh realities of a legendary career. It will thoroughly delight wrestling purists and anyone drawn to unflinching, unghostwritten accounts of athletes who proudly wear their hearts, and their pink tights, on their sleeves.
- Mood
- raw
- reflective
- intense
- Tone
- candid
- unflinching
- perceptive
- proud
- authentic
- Pace
- steady
- Themes
- the reality of sports entertainment · personal sacrifice · professional dedication · life behind the curtain
- The writing
- Unvarnished and brutally honest, capturing a deeply personal voice without the filter of a collaborator.
- The arc
- Moves from the raw intensity of the wrestling ring to a perceptive, startling reflection on a life dedicated to the sport.
- Who it's for
- Wrestling fans and readers drawn to startlingly candid, unghostwritten sports memoirs.
Content notes
- harsh realities of professional sports
About the book
Written without collaborators and based on decades of tape recordings he made throughout his career, HITMAN is Bret Hart's brutally honest, perceptive and startling account of his life in and out of the ring that proves once and for all that great things come in pink tights.
Description from Open Library.
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