Reading the Fights: The Best Writing About the Most Controversial of Sports

By Joyce Carol Oates

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0137611498
• ISBN13: 9780137611492
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Direct
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 5.6" x 0.9"

Customer Reviews

An excellent collection by a very diverse group of writers.

I begin by admitting some prejudice: I am one of the authors included, and the name of the volume was taken from my essay (publisher's choice, not my pushiness!) This is an excellent collection, including Mailer, Liebling, Oates, and many others. Not quite the wonderful cornucopia that The Fireside Book of Boxing was some 30 or 40 years ago (that was one of the great sports' anthologies of all time), but still well worth owning. (I don't get any royalties, honest!)