Budd Schulberg's celebrated novel of the prize ring has lost none of its power since its first publication almost fifty years ago.
Crowded with unforgettable characters, it is a relentless expose of the fight racket.
A modern Samson in the form of a simple Argentine peasant is ballyhooed by an unscrupulous fight promoter and his press agent and then betrayed and destroyed by connivers.
Schulberg creates a wonderfully authentic atmosphere for this book that many critics hailed as even better than What Makes Sammy Run? The quintessential novel of boxing and corruption.
--USA Today The book will stand not only as the novel about boxing but also as a book that indirectly tells more about civilization than do most books about civilization itself.
--Arthur Miller.
Brilliant, witty, and amusing--the best book on fighting that I have read.
--Gene Tunney.
About the Author Budd Schulberg is also the author of What Makes Sammy Run?, The Disenchanted, Sparring with Hemingway, On the Waterfront (play and screenplay), and Moving Pictures: Memories of a Hollywood Prince.
He lives in Westhampton Beach, New York.
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