NEUTRAL CORNER: BOXING ESSAYS (Fireside Sport Classic) - Softcover

Liebling, A.j.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671750453 ISBN 13: 9780671750459

Publisher: Fireside, 1992

Synopsis

A collection of fifteen essays written between 1952 and 1963 deal with the world of boxing, including the Patterson-Johansson championship fight of 1959 and the rise of a young fighter named Muhammad Ali

About this title

About the Author:

A.J. Liebling joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1935 and wrote for the magazine until his death in 1963. Fred Warner and James Barbour are emeritus professors at the University of New Mexico.

From Publishers Weekly:

Liebling (1904-1963) was an impeccable stylist, whether covering the vagaries of the American press, the glories of France or the simple pleasures of good food. He may have reserved his best literary efforts, however, for boxing, a contention borne out by the 15 essays in this collection, all originally published in the New Yorker between 1952 and 1963. His talent for extended metaphor is beautifully displayed in "The University of Eighth Avenue," about Stillman's Gym in Manhattan; for a simile in a class of its own, see his description of heavyweight champion Ingemar Johansson going down "like a double portion of Swedish pancakes with lingonberries and sour cream." Liebling's brevity happily infects his description of Indianapolis as "built around two large monuments to the wartime dead, which set the urban tone." These pieces are not blow-by-blow, round-by-round accounts of great fights, but observations of sporting people and places. Anyone who appreciates good prose, if not boxing, will find surprises and satisfaction here.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Fireside
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0671750453
• ISBN 13: 9780671750459
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256