Muhammad Ali in Fighter's Heaven - Softcover

Bockris, Victor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0091801958 ISBN 13: 9780091801953

Publisher: Hutchinson, 1998

Synopsis

The man who has no imagination Stands on earth He has no wings He cannot fly' MUHAMMAD ALI Just off highway 61 in northern Pennsylvania, up the dirt drive of a wooden hill lay a place called Fighters Heaven. This was once the training camp of the 'greatest of all time'. From early '73 through the summer of '74 Victor Bockris visited Muhammad Ali, while Ali was preparing for his epic battle in Zaire to regain the world heavyweight crown from the fearsome George Foreman. Bockris, who was later to write about people like William Burroughs, Andy Warhol and Lou Reed was less interested in his subjects boxing career and ambitions than in his extraordinary gifts as a poet, preacher and performer. As Muhammad Ali said himself of this book, 'These are some of the things I dont reveal to the public too much'. 'Ali is the one athlete of these times who will stir imaginations a century from now - and this record of a period in his camp will make that eminently understandable. A fascinating document. 'George Plimpton.

About this title

About the Author:

Victor Bockris has lived in New York City for the past twenty-four years. During that time he has devoted himself to chronicling New York's downtown culture, with an emphasis on the worlds of William Burroughs, Andy Warhol, and punk rock. In March 1994 he was the subject of a profile in Italian Vogue entitled 'Poet of the New York Underground'. His articles have appeared in Interview, People, Elle, Mirabella, The Village Voice, Penthouse and numerous other magazines and newspapers in the United States and around the world. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, he is the author of a number of books including: Lou Reed: The Biography. Keith Richards: The Biography. The Life and Death of Andy Warhol. Uptight: The Velvet Underground Atory. Making Tracks: The Rise of Blondie. With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker.

From the Back Cover:

'The supreme athlete of our generation, arguably of the 20th century... the man deemed by Time magazine to be the most instantly recognised human being in the world... the Greatest, the man whose dazzling virtuosity within the prize ring was matched only by his articulacy and outrageous showmanship outside it'
Daily Mail

About this edition

• Publisher: Hutchinson
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0091801958
• ISBN 13: 9780091801953
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96