Falling Hard : A Rookie's Year In Boxing

Jones, Chris

ISBN 10: 0887846645 / ISBN 13: 9780887846649

Published by House of Anansi Press Limited, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2007

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The book is inscribed and signed by the author on the full title page. Compliments of publisher sticker on back cover and title page.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Falling Hard : A Rookie's Year In Boxing
• Publisher: House of Anansi Press Limited, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0887846645
• ISBN 13: 9780887846649
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed
  • Sports & Recreation
  • Autobiographies, Biographies And Memoirs

About this title

Synopsis

In Falling Hard: A Rookie's Year in Boxing, Chris Jones recounts his first year at ringside. He gets dressed down by Don King, gambles his way through Vegas, meets the troubled guy who found Evander Holyfield's ear, goes to Muhammad Ali's birthday party, and witnesses Prince Naseem Hamed explode while Mike Tyson implodes. Like the sport itself, Falling Hard is equal measures of victory and defeat — an intoxicating combination that leaves Jones down for the count more than once. Determined to stay objective, he instead becomes addicted to boxing's special brand of pain, and what begins as a simple curiosity soon escalates into an unhealthy obsession. Jones writes with the rhythm of the sport he covers: hard and fast, with the drama of fiction but the truth of journalism. Sometimes humorous, always suspenseful, Falling Hard is a travelogue for the fight game, boxing distilled to its essence by sportswriting's newest star.

About the Author

Chris Jones has been a sports writer since 1998 and has won the Edward Goff Penny Memorial Prize for outstanding young journalists. He lives in Toronto.