The Fight: Norman Mailer (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Mailer, Norman

 
9780141184142: The Fight: Norman Mailer (Penguin Modern Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0141184140 ISBN 13: 9780141184142
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2000

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From one of the major innovators of New Journalism, Norman Mailer's The Fight is the real-life story of a clash between two of the world's greatest boxers, both in and out of the ring, published in Penguin Modern Classics.

Norman Mailer's The Fight focuses on the 1974 World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Kinshasa, Zaire. Muhammad Ali met George Foreman in the ring. Foreman's genius employed silence, serenity and cunning. He had never been defeated. His hands were his instrument, and 'he kept them in his pockets the way a hunter lays his rifle back into its velvet case'. Together the two men made boxing history in an explosive meeting of two great minds, two iron wills and monumental egos.

'"If ever a fighter had been able to demonstrate that boxing was a twentieth-century art, it must be Ali", says Norm, and his achievement in this masterly book is of a similar order, demonstrating that writing about sport can also be a twentieth-century art'
Geoff Dyer, New Statesman

'Probably no one has written about boxing better than Mailer has'
Guardian

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Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was one of the great post-War American writers, both as a novelist and as one of the key inventors of the New Journalism. His books include the novels The Naked and the Dead, The Deer Park, Why Are We in Vietnam?, The Executioner's Song and Harlot's Ghost and the non-fiction works The Armies of the Night, A Fire on the Moon (published in the USA as Of a Fire on the Moon) and The Fight. He won the National Book Award and twice won the Pulitzer Prize.

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From one of the major innovators of New Journalism, Norman Mailer's The Fight is the real-life story of a clash between two of the world's greatest boxers, both in and out of the ring, published in Penguin Modern Classics.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0141184140
ISBN 13 
9780141184142
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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