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Title: On Boxing by Joyce Carol Oates ISBN: 0-88001-385-0 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Take It From a Fighter
Comment: I am still stunned that a person who has never been in the ring could have gained insights into boxing as powerful as the ones Oates pulled together in this book. And I'm grateful (and stunned) that a woman could be as sympathetic, not just to fighters, but to men and manhood, as Oates has managed to be in this book.
I am a serious amateur fighter and a sparring partner to the professional fighters I train with. I do gym work or road work five days a week with a former-professional trainer who was also a two-time NY Golden Gloves champion and junior Olympian. I spar Glovers and pros and I love it. I understand boxing and the love for boxing. The gist of my review here is this: After I read this book I realized I didn't understand my love for boxing -- where it comes from and what it all means and what it is I'm doing exactly -- as well as Joyce Carol Oates does. This woman is amazing to me. I've never read her fiction, but I will.
The first section of this book, the one in which Oates seemingly tries to take on boxing and what it means from every imaginable angle, is best. This is one of those very, very few books that made me fold down corners so that I can easily return to specific passages. I don't know if non-fighters will really understand this book, or if many fighters will ever bother to read it. But I'm damned glad I did and damned glad Ms. Oates is out there writing.
Rating: 1
Summary: liberal lies or bad research
Comment: i must address several untruths in ms. oates book.while she is certainly a good writer,apparently she didn't do much research for this book.she states that the majority of soldiers killed and who served in the vietnam war were black;wrong.blacks made up 12 percent of the u.s. population at the time,and 14 percent of the casualties.the average soldier who died in vietnam was a middle-classed white boy.next she states that champ jack dempsey was afraid to fight black fighters;wrong.he fought at least 3 black fighters that is easily verified,and his chief sparring partner was black.his promoter tex rickard wouldn't allow it,for fear of race riots.harry wills the top black fighter of the time was afraid to fight middleweight harry greb.he also sustained a horrific beating at the hands of white heavyweight jack sharky.jack johnson admitted that the only acknowledged fight he lost was to joe choynski.while the "saintly" joe louis was dringing,doing drugs,and cheating on his wife,max scmeling was freeing jews in germany.incidentally max scmeling and jack sharky are both still alive at nearly one hundred.do some research please!
Rating: 4
Summary: The Lady Knows Boxing
Comment: And she's had long meaningful conversations with a pre-incarceration Mike Tyson. Before the ear biting and the crotch grabbing etc. The two chapters (actually essays) I highly recommend here are the one about Tyson and "Boxing: The Cruelest Sport." This is essentially a collection of essays Oates has written about boxing so they're a mixed bag. But it's worth getting for the two I mentioned.
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Title: The Fight by Norman Mailer ISBN: 0375700382 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Greatest Boxing Stories Ever Told: Thirty-Six Incredible Tales from the Ring by Jeff Silverman ISBN: 1585746134 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Cut Time : An Education at the Fights by Carlo Rotella ISBN: 0618145338 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Hardest Game : McIlvanney on Boxing by Hugh McIlvanney ISBN: 0658021540 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 21 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Rope Burns : Stories From the Corner by F. X. Toole ISBN: 0060938382 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 18 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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