About this title: Meet Jake La Motta: thief, rapist, killer. Raised in the Bronx slums, he fought on the streets, got sent to reform school, and served time in prison. Trusting no one, slugging everyone, he beat his wife, his best friends, even the mobsters who kept the title just out of reach. But the same forces that made him a criminalfear, rage, jealousy, ...
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Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Da Capo Pr
Date Published: 1997-08-21
ISBN-13:9780306808081ISBN:0306808080
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780306808081. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780306808081ISBN:0306808080
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date Published: 1970
ISBN-13:9780137525270ISBN:0137525273
Description: Photographs. Very Good in Good Minus jacket. Jacket has some creasing and edge wear. Now in protective plastic (mylar) and looking pretty sharp. Stamp on ffep and first title page that reads "Property of Jaffe-Stivers Productions. " read more
Description: photos. VG+/VG- 218pp. DJ has a scuff upper right front, about 1/2" wide and 2" deep, bit of edgewear and bit of fading to DJ spine as well. read more
Description: 20 B/W Photos. Good+/Good+ DJ with Mylar 218pgs Top rear fore-edge corner of DJ has a 1" chip & book cover there is stained & has 1/2" piece of cloth missing & owner name. Embossed on endpaper, o.w. clean, bright & tight. read more
Description: La Motta, Jake w/Joseph Carter & Peter Savage., pub. by Prentice-Hall Inc., nd, c1970, 1st Edition, cloth w/gilt spine titles, slightly cocked o/w vg w/chipped dj (tear in rear panel), 218 pp, B & W photographic illus., tall 8vo, 'Madison Square Garden-'L. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Date Published: 1970
Description: Collectible; Very Good in Very Good jacket. A sharp copy of the 1970 1st edition. VG+ in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket. Octavo, 218 pgs. Basis for the legendary Martin Scorcese film. read more
Description: 1970, 1st edition, very good+ condition, prior owners neat gift inscription on front free endpaper, with a very good dust jacket, small wear and minor wrinkled closed tears to dust jacket edges, published by Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 218 pages. The autobiography of the middle-weight boxing champion of the world; Jake "The Bronx Bull" La Motta, a portrait of a colorfull, deceptively complex boxer, and why he fights, why he wins, and why he loses, inside and outside of the boxing ring. The ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780306808081ISBN:0306808080
Description: New. "Meet Jake La Motta: thief, rapist, killer. Raised in the Bronx slums, he fought on the streets, got sent to reform school, and served time in prison. Trusting no one, slugging everyone, he beat his wi" read more
To state the obvious:There is a movie based off of it with the same name and the movie followed this book closely.
But, I kind of wish the movie had included the character "Pete" instead of molding Joey & Pete together... Anyway this was hard to put down. Glad he didn't hold back too much on the details of what went down in his life and it wasn't one of those "pity me" stories.
I'm being vague about the details here. If you like the sport of boxing then this is a must read."
"This is a fascinating book, in that its story is the Ur-Text for the Scorcese film, as well as being a classic in its own right as an a boxing book and a book on different levels, structures, groups & institutions of power as they play their parts in LaMotta's quest for power in the ring. The film turns the story into a Catholic allegory which transforms the Raging Bull from the realization that "I'm not an animal" into the Man of the Theater and Language who goes on stage to recite poetry by the greats as well as himself. The book has many strange redemptive moments of its own, especially one that opens and closes the tale. LaMotta--with Peter Maas--has a lighter touch than Scorcese, with a lot of laughter pervading some of the really tawdry and grim episodes. LaMotta's book is one of the pioneering works of a new form of sports writing that developed in the 1960's, in which the athlete themself has the a self awareness and sense of the meanings of their careers and personas which before it had usally been up to sports writers and the writers influenced by them to create. Books like LaMotta's, Jim Brosnan's Pennant Race and others, Jim Bouton's Ball Four and the non-stop genius with language of Muhammad Ali changed the landscape for sports coverage and sports writing."
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