FINALIST - Autobiography / Memoirs, 2016 Best Books Award "A
British karateka" offers a bone-crushing, lip-splitting, and often
elegant memoir of a tough guy searching for higher meaning through
the study of martial arts." Kirkus Reviews "In this memoir
describing how karate turned his life around, Clarke displays
passion and grit in spades." Foreword Reviews Michael Clarke was an
angry, vicious kid, a street fighter. He grew up in the late
sixties and early seventies in Manchester, England, in a tough
neighborhood where, he writes, Prostitutes worked the pavement
opposite my home, illegal bookmakers took bets in back alley
cellars, and street brawls were commonplace." He left school at
fifteenand began his education as a pugilist on the streets. He
fought in bars andclubs, at football matches, in parks, and in bus
stationsand he was good. He reveledin the victories and the
admiration they brought. It was a life of knucklesand teeth, of
broken bones and torn fleshand the arrests that followed. Clarkewas
seventeen when a judge sentenced him to two years in Strangeways
Prison, aninfamous place also known as psychopath central." In
prison he resolved tochange his life and stay out of trouble, but
trouble was everywhere. Hediscovered a world of violent gangs,
abusive guards, and inmates engaged in anendless struggle for
dominance. Strangeways was a place where a person couldget stabbed
to death for taking the bigger piece of toast. In time Clarke was
released,but the transition was difficult and he almost fought his
way back to prison. Thenone night he entered a karate dojo and his
life changed forever. He began alifetime pursuit of budo, the
martial way. He sought knowledge, studied withmasters, and traveled
to Okinawa, the birthplace of karate. Redemption: A Street
Fighter's Path toPeace is a true account of youthwasted and life
reclaimed. Michael Clarke reminds us that martial arts are
notsimply about punching and kicking. They forge the spirit, temper
the will, and revealour true nature.
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