The Fight - Hardcover

Mailer, Norman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316544167 ISBN 13: 9780316544160

Publisher: Little Brown & Co, 1975

Synopsis

The spirited chronicler of war, politics, sex, and himself trains his sharpered wits and sights on the principles, promoters, and observers of the 1974 Ali-Foreman championship fight in Kinshasa, Zaire

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Review:

"Entertaining... Mailer continues his familiar shadow-boxing with the ineffable." -- Time In 1975 in Kinshasa, Zaire, at the virtual center of Africa, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other until one was declared winner. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging but irrepressible "professor of boxing" who vowed to reclaim the championship he had lost. The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble and who kept his hands in his pockets "the way a hunter lays his rifle back into its velvet case." Observing them was Norman Mailer, whose grasp of the titanic battle's feints and stratagems -- and whose sensitivity to their deeper symbolism -- make this book a masterpiece of the literature of sport. Whether he is analyzing the fighters' moves, interpreting their characters, or weighing their competing claims on the African and American souls, Mailer is a commentator of unparalleled energy, acumen, and audacity -- and su

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0316544167
• ISBN 13: 9780316544160
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 239