The Body Shop: Parties, Pills, and Pumping Iron -- Or, My Life in the Age of Muscle

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HardCover Pub Date: 2010 07 Pages: 304 in Publisher: Little own As a scrawny college is freshman in the mid-1970s just before Arnold Schwarzenegger became a hero to boys everywhere and Pumping Iron became a cult. hit Paul Solotaroff discovered weights and steroids. In a matter of months. he grew from a dorky beanpole into a hulking behemoth. showing off his rock hard muscles first on the streets of New York City and then alongside his colorful gym-rat friends in strip clubs and inthe homes of the gotham elite. It was a swinging time. when Would you like to dance turned into Your place or mine and the guys with the muscles had all the ladies - until their bodies. like Solotaroff'' s. completely shut down. But this isn 't the gloom-and-doom addiction one might expect - Solotaroff looks back at even his lowest points with a wicked sense of humor. and he sends up the disco era a...