EAN: 9781912740086

THE SET-UP - JOSEPH MONCURE MARCH GEBUNDEN

Written in 1928  The Set-Up is a long narrative poem about the US boxing underworld - a
hard-boiled tragedy told in syncopated rhyming couplets. When the work was first published it
made the bestseller list  and in 1949 it was turned into an award-winning film featuring Robert
Ryan and Audrey Totter. This reprinting of the original  unchanged 1928 poem features dynamic 
specially commissioned artwork by Erik Kriek that vividly conveys the story of Pansy  an
up-and-coming black prize fighter who takes on all comers. When he was in the ring  It was over
before you knew it. He'd carve you up like a leg of mutton. And drop you flat with a sock on
the button.? Pansy's complicated love life leads to a spell in prison and his career
subsequently takes a nosedive  but he continues to box until the fateful night his fight
managers and opponent triple-cross him and he meets a grisly end at the hands of a vengeful
gang.

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