The Good Son: The Life of Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini
Autor Mark Kriegelen Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 iul 2013
Frank Sinatra fawned over him. Warren Zevon wrote a tribute song. Sylvester Stallone produced his life story as a movie of the week. In the 1980s, Ray ?Boom Boom? Mancini wasn't merely the lightweight champ. An adoring public considered him a national hero, the real Rocky.
But it all came apart on November 13, 1982, in a brutal battle at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Mancini's obscure Korean challenger, Duk Koo Kim, went down in the fourteenth round and never regained consciousness. Three months later, Kim's despondent mother took her own life. The deaths would haunt Ray and ruin his carefully crafted image, suddenly transforming boxing's All-American Boy into a pariah. With the vivid style and deep reporting that have earned him renown as a biographer, Mark Kriegel has written a fast-paced epic. The Good Son is an intimate history, a saga of fathers and fighters, loss and redemption.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780743286367
ISBN-10: 0743286367
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 142 x 216 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Simon&Schuster
ISBN-10: 0743286367
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 142 x 216 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Simon&Schuster
Recenzii
"Kriegel s smoothly written biography tells the story of a rust belt hero whose boxing career was marred by tragedy in the ring.. . . as a saga of two families dealing with hardship and violent death, this boxing history is completely engaging." "Publishers Weekly"