About this title: A. J. Liebling knew the world of boxing intimately and wrote about it for The New Yorker. This collection of sketches, considered a classic in the field of sports writing, was originally published in 1956.
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Description: New. AUDIOBOOK. NOT A BOOK! Please order accordingly! All Audiobooks are in the original factory sealed shrinkwrap box! Box may show signs of dents, etc. All CD's Are guaranteed to play! Audio CD, New, 2007, read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Viking Press, NY
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780670686537ISBN:0670686530
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 5 x 8. 306 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth and board exterior w/title on spine in red. Interior has prior owner embossed name stamp on half-title page, otherwise unmarked, tight and clean. Paper is starting to brown. read more
"A classic of sports writing generally and of boxing specifically. Liebling's first-person, experiential style inspired the so-called New Journalists. Like Hemingway's book about bull-fighting Death in the Afternoon, Liebling's book is about more than boxing -- it's about change, especially that from young to old, champion to the defeated. And it's also about the advent of TV, which was just becoming a must-have household item. Liebling thought it was ruining boxing, but by the final line, he nails the impact of that change -- and all others. Seriously: In one sentence, he dismantles the whole this-generation-is-worse-than-the-last bromide. Brilliant."
"Fun to read if you are interested in boxing and like the idea of knowledgable, humorous and at times downright sarcastic commentary of a type which is no longer (unfortunately) seen anymore."
"Liebling, A. J. THE SWEET SCIENCE. (1956). ****. If you're not, or never were a boxing fan, then this book may fall flat on your sensibilities. If you were (or are), however, this book will probably be the best one you will ever read on the sport. Then again, if you're not, you will at least come to recognize what the average boxing fan sees in the sport and to learn more about the principal players of the early 1950s. Liebling, at the time, was a reporter for the New York Post and a contributor to The New Yorker. He was an avid boxing fan and knew the sport and all of the major figures involved. Aside from who and what he knew, however, he was one of the best and most perceptive reporters of his day. His writing flew across the page, with little or no ornamentation, and you left one of his commentaries knowing the facts and the facts behind the facts. In this book, collected in a volume from The Library of America, you will meet such boxing legends as Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Archie Moore. The book was called "the best sports book of all time" by Sports Illustrated in 2002. Recommended."
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