Rocky

by Julia Sorel and Sylvester Stallone

Book Overview

Fighting for love, glory and self-respect, Rocky scores an exultant knockout! Rocky Balboa is a Philadelphia club fighter who seems to be going nowhere. But when a stroke of fate puts him in the ring... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345286529
• ISBN13: 9780345286529
• Release Date: June 1979
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 5.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Better than the movie!

This book was written by Julia Sorel based on the screenplay as written by Sylvester Stallone. A love story about the World's Heavyweight Championship.Here's your ringside seat for the bloodiest bicentennial in history. The place? Philadelphia. The stakes? The 1976 World Heavyweight Crown. The contenders? Black champ Apollo Creed who spouts poetry at the press and throws dynamite at his opponets . . . and challenger Rocky Balboa -- the "Italian Stallion" -- a small-time guy with bigtime guts who yearns to be a hero -- just once!This book -- like the movie -- will have you laughing, crying and cheering out loud! This slum fairy tale screenplay was turned into one of the best boxing movies ever made -- maybe THE best written by and starring Sylvester Stallone and Talia Shire as Rocky and his girlfriend Adrian, Burt Young as Paulie, Burgess Meredith as Mickey and Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed.