The Tao of Bruce Lee: A Martial Arts Memoir - Softcover

Davis Miller

Softcover

ISBN 10: 060980538X ISBN 13: 9780609805381

Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA), 2002

Synopsis

The Tao of Bruce Lee In this companion volume to his critically acclaimed first book, The Tao of Muhammad Ali, Davis Miller turns his attention to a second iconic figure of the twentieth century--and another of Miller's own seminal influences: film star and martial arts legend Bruce Lee.Just weeks after completing Enter the Dragon, his first vehicle for a worldwide audience, Bruce Lee--the self-proclaimed world's fitt... Full description

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Product Description:

Combining biography and personal memoir, this portrait of a great martial arts master explores the life of the man who began as an obscure Hong Kong actor and now occupies iconic stature in American culture.

Review:

A martial arts Nick Hornby, Miller bulks up with a punishing regimen and reads everything he can by or about Lee, discovering a personal philosophy that allows him to grow as an adult and feel secure in himself. Miller is illuminating about the ability to transform oneself no matter what the circumstances. -- The Times

Bruce Lee freed Miller to transform himself from someone his high school classmates called 'Foetus', and shut inside lockers for fun, into a sinewy, 140-pound kickboxer . . . In the section solely about Lee, Miller usefully debunks myths about the martial artist's life, and especially about his strange death with his mistress. [At the end of the book,] one gets the impression that, in future stories, Miller has lots more to say about his idols, who are always with him. -- The San Francisco Chronicle - editors' recommendation

Davis Miller is singlehandedly, brilliantly, and beautifully reinventing memoir, biography, and coming-of-age books. -- Ron Shelton, director and writer, Cobb, Bull Durham, Blaze

This fantastic second book by Miller runs deeper than an account of the author growing up as a 'karate kid' in the early 1970s. It is equally a study of the nature and role of the hero in popular culture, a poignant and unusual coming-of-age story, and an informative biography of Bruce Lee. -- Ted Leventhal, Booklist - starred review

About this edition

• Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 060980538X
• ISBN 13: 9780609805381
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208