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PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS THE FIGHT - NORMAN MA...

From one of the major innovators of New Journalism  Norman Mailer's The Fight is the real-life
story of a clash between two of the world's greatest boxers  both in and out of the ring 
published in Penguin Modern Classics.Norman Mailer's The Fight focuses on the 1974 World
Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Kinshasa  Zaire. Muhammad Ali met George Foreman in the
ring. Foreman's genius employed silence  serenity and cunning. He had never been defeated. His
hands were his instrument  and 'he kept them in his pockets the way a hunter lays his rifle
back into its velvet case'. Together the two men made boxing history in an explosive meeting of
two great minds  two iron wills and monumental egos.'If ever a fighter had been able to
demonstrate that boxing was a twentieth-century art  it must be Ali  says Norm  and his
achievement in this masterly book is of a similar order  demonstrating that writing about sport
can also be a twentieth-century art'Geoff Dyer  New Statesman'Probably no one has written about
boxing better than Mailer has'Guardian

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