| Автор: Kriegel Mark
Название: The Good Son: The Life of Ray "Boom Boom " Mancini
ISBN: 0743286367 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780743286367
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Цена: 2069.00 р.
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Описание: From the bestselling author of "Pistol" and "Namath," a vivid, revealing, and fast-paced biography of the great boxer Ray Boom Boom Mancini.
Frank Sinatra fawned over him. Warren Zevon wrote a tribute song. Sylvester Stallone produced his life story as a movie of the week. In the 1980s, Ray Boom Boom Mancini wasn t merely the lightweight champ. An adoring public considered him a national hero, the real Rocky.
But it all came apart on November 13, 1982, in a brutal battle at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Mancini s obscure Korean challenger, Duk Koo Kim, went down in the fourteenth round and never regained consciousness. Three months later, Kim s despondent mother took her own life. The deaths would haunt Ray and ruin his carefully crafted image, suddenly transforming boxing s All-American Boy into a pariah. With the vivid style and deep reporting that have earned him renown as a biographer, Mark Kriegel has written a fast-paced epic. "The Good Son" is an intimate history, a saga of fathers and fighters, loss and redemption." |
