Neither will he be appearing on some Alan Sugar-style business reality television show.
A flat style, sugared with small-town sentimentality, makes it a heavy read.
Includes Native American and Colonial style sugaring sites.
As Bourdos tells it, the spun-sugar late style — disliked for years but now, perhaps, coming into fashion — is an old man's last, greedy assertion of life, a triumph over infirmity and pain as well as the war.
Yesterday, with unfortunate timing, one of its most important pieces of machinery - the star striker Teddy Sheringham - stuck in a transfer request, apparently disillusioned with Mr Sugar's style of negotiating new contracts.
Other characters include Dan Ashcroft, a columnist for Sugar Ape style magazine, whose editor, Jonatton Yeah?, added the "?" by deed poll, and his sister Claire Ashcroft, a film-maker who is "furious that no one will fund her hard-hitting documentary about a choir of reformed junkies".
But when wines are made in a dry style, the sugar content in grapes at harvest tells little about the wine in the bottle.
It's a raucous, crazily energised, if occasionally slightly shallow epic on a familiar subject, conducted in the classic voiceover-nostalgia style with sugar-rush jukebox slams on the soundtrack.
As an athlete and as a performer, Clay learned from, and copied, a multitude of sources: the braggadocio of the professional wrestler "Gorgeous" George Wagner, the footwork and boxing style of Sugar Ray Robinson.
Continue to monitor your blood sugar and make life style changes.
