Kimball George, Schulian John At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing 9781598530926

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Автор: Kimball George, Schulian John
Название: At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing
Перевод названия: Джордж Кимболл: Внутри боя. Американские писатели о боксе
ISBN: 9781598530926
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1598530925
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 560
Вес: 0.82 кг.
Дата издания: 03.03.2011
Язык: English
Размер: 236.00 x 162.00 x 33.00
Поставляется из: США
Описание: American writers have been fascinated by the ring, both the primal contest inside the ropes and the crazy carnival world outside them. From neighborhood gyms and smoke-filled arenas to star-studded casinos and exotic locales, they have chronicled unforgettable stories about determination and dissipation, about great champions and punch-drunk has-beens, about colorful entourages and outrageous promoters, and, inevitably along the way, about race, class, and violence in America. Like baseball, boxing has a vivid culture and language all its own, one that has proven irresistible to career journalists and literary writers alike.
The Library of America presents a gritty and glittering anthology of a century of the very best writing and reportage about the fights. Here are Jack London on the immortal Jack Johnson; H. L. Mencken and Irvin S. Cobb on Jack Dempsey vs. Georges Carpentier, dubbed The Fight of the Century; Richard Wright on Joe Louiss historic victory over Max Schmeling; A. J. Lieblings brilliantly comic portrait of a manager who really identifies with his fighter; Jimmy Cannon on the inimitable Archie Moore; James Baldwin and Gay Talese on the haunted Floyd Patterson; George Plimpton on Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X; Norman Mailer on the Rumble in the Jungle; Mark Kram on the Thrilla in Manila; Pete Hamill on legendary trainer and manager Cus DAmato; Mark Kriegel on Oscar de la Hoya; and David Remnick and Joyce Carol Oates on Mike Tyson. National Book Award-winning novelist Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin) weighs in with a foreword.

At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing, Kimball George, Schulian John