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The Sweet Science by A. J. Liebling Publisher Comments A.J. Liebling's classic New Yorker pieces on the "sweet science of bruising" bring vividly to life the boxing world as it once was. It depicts the great events of boxing's American heyday: Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper 
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Million Dollar Baby: Stories From the Corner by F. X. Toole Publisher Comments This hard-hitting collection of powerful and moving tales based on the experiences of the late, great fight manager and cut man Jerry Boyd, who wrote under the pen name F. X. Toole, is now the basis for a major motion picture starring Hilary Swank and... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine: Stories by Thom Jones Review "Spending time with Jones' battle-worn eccentrics and disenfranchised misfits leaves you feeling bruised but also elated." Kate Sekules... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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On Boxing, Expanded Edition ((2ND)95 Edition) by Joyce Carol Oates Publisher Comments Chapter One "It's a terrible sport, but it's a sport . . . the fight for survival is the fight. --Rocky Graziano, " former middleweight champion of the world They are young welterweight boxers so evenly matched they might be twins, though one has a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Clint Eastwood: A Biography by Richard Schickel Publisher Comments "Authoritative . . . highly nuanced . . . gives the reader a palpable sense of Mr. Eastwood's career." --The New York Times From the moment The Man With No Name first fixed the screen with his murderous squint, from the first time audiences... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Gloves: A Boxing Chronicle by Robert Anasi Review "A dying blook sport is reincarnated as a metaphor for redemption under flawed circumstances."--Nita Rao, The Village Voice "Robert Anasi . . . can turn a phrase as clean as a neatly wrapped fist."--Stephanie Zacharek, Newsday "As gripping as any Arctic... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Pugilist at Rest: Stories by Thom Jones Publisher Comments Thom Jones's stories strike with a profound and devastating impact. HIs vision of the human condition is almost brutal, for in ithe world of Jones's fiction there is such a preponderance of darkness that light itself becomes a form of torture. Yet each... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Professional by W C Heinz Publisher Comments Originally published in 1958, The Professional is the story of boxer Eddie Brown's quest for the middleweight championship of the world. But it is so much more. W. C. Heinz not only serves up a realistic depiction of the circus-like atmosphere around... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fat City (69 Edition) by Leonard Gardner Staff Pick Fat City is the first (and, sadly, only) novel by Leonard Gardner. It is 180 pages of boxing, booze, lousy jobs, poisoned relationships, and flophouse squalor. It perfectly captures the characters' desperation, hopelessness, and faded dreams. If you are... (read more) List Price $28.50 Your price: $17.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Cold Snap: Stories by Thom Jones TOC Cold snap -- Superman, my son -- Way down deep in the jungle -- Quicksand -- Pickpocket -- Ooh baby baby --Rocketfire red -- I need a man to love me -- Pot shack -- Dynamite hands.... (read more) List Price $13.20 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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