The Gloves: A Boxing Chronicle
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0865475997
ISBN 13
9780865475991
Category
Biographies & Memoirs
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Publication Year
2002
Publisher
Pages
320
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Description
In his last year of eligibility, Robert Anasi, age thirty-three, decided to fight in the Golden Gloves tournament, the premier event in amateur boxing. "The gym becomes a way of life," he explains, and so it does for the reader, as Anasi ushers us into a world of training and competition, of friendly rivalry, of artistry and violence. He tells his story not as a journalist on assignment but as a man in the midst of one of the great adventures of his life, and in his hands (the Village Voice's reviewer observed) "a dying blood sport is reincarnated as a metaphor for redemption under flawed circumstances."
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