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‘Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man’ by Jay Atkinson

By Chuck Leddy

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  April 27, 2012

Jay Atkinson’s stylish, unabashedly macho memoir of three and a half decades of amateur rugby is fueled by his love of grind-it-out athletic competition and the obvious joy he takes in the high-testosterone, alcohol-fueled comradeship of his fellow rugby players. But make no mistake this is no simple account of life in a “blood fraternity.’’ Seeded throughout come lessons and insights gleaned from three and a half decades of broken bones and bruised hearts, soaring victory and stunning loss.

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