The Good Son: The Life of Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini - Softcover

Kriegel, Mark

 
9780743286367: The Good Son: The Life of Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0743286367 ISBN 13: 9780743286367
Verlag: Simon & Schuster, 2013

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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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mark Kriegel is the author several books, including the bestsellers Namath: A Biography and Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich. He is a veteran columnist and a commentator for the NFL Network. He lives in Santa Monica, California.

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Verlag
Simon & Schuster
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0743286367
ISBN 13 
9780743286367
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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