Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder

Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder is a 1991 non-fiction book by Samuel Wilson Fussell. It describes Fussell's time as a bodybuilder over four years, during which he takes steroids.

Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder
AuthorSamuel Wilson Fussell
LanguageEnglish
SubjectBodybuilding
PublisherPoseidon Press
Publication date
1991
Publication placeUnited States
ISBN9780671701956

Publishers Weekly described it as "A book of minor significance, but enjoyable reading."[1]

Camille Paglia wrote, "Fussell has a great eye for eccentric characters and a great ear for the crackling vernacular. But too little time has passed for him to have psychological perspective on his profoundly self-altering experience.[2]

References

edit
  1. ^ "Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder by Samuel Wilson Fussell". Publishers Weekly. 3 April 1991. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  2. ^ Paglia, Camille (1992). Sex, art, and American culture: essays (1st ed.). New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 9780679741015.