A Treasury of Boxing Reportage
De som köpt den här boken har ofta också köpt Dog Man 11: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea... av Dav Pilkey (häftad).
Köp båda 2 för 425 krThroughout, Schulberg exhibits a boxing IQ matched by his wit. * Booklist * Brims with fascinating stories.... Essential reading for all serious students of the sweet science. -- Gordon Marino * The New York Times * Theres an operatic, carnival-barker quality to Schulbergs reporting...that reflects the high-low vertigo of the best sports writing. -- Benjamin Healy and Benjamin Schwartz * The Atlantic Monthly * Ringside contains Schulberg's mix of erudition and street authenticity. -- Robert David Jaffee * Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles * Having covered boxing for more than 60 years...Budd Schulberg knows a thing or two about the sweet science. -- Carole Goldberg * Hartford Courant * A knockout of a sportswriting collection. * Dartmouth Alumni Magazine * Schulberg's prose is imperiousAnybody with the slightest interest in the literature of sport should try to get their hands on this book. -- Andrew Baker * Telegraph * Ringside is that rare thing: a sports book by a writer who has truly lived his subject. Boxing has consumed Shulberg for over half a century and it shows on every absorbing page of this wonderful collection. -- Nick Clarke * Independent *
Budd Schulberg is also the author of What Makes Sammy Run?, The Harder They Fall, The Disenchanted, On the Waterfront (play and screenplay), and Moving Pictures: Memories of a Hollywood Prince. He lives in Westhampton Beach, New York.