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Fight, November 2007
Hardcover
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking
Harper
November 2007
On Sale: November 11, 2007
224 pages ISBN: 0061189227 EAN: 9780061189227 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Crushing your enemies, driving them before you, and hearing
the lamentations of their women? It doesn't get any better
than this." –Eugene Robinson, ripping off John Milius That's the sentiment that surges just below the surface of
Eugene Robinson's Fight – an engrossing, intimate look into
the all–absorbing world of fighting. Robinson – a former
body–builder, one–time bouncer, and lifelong fight
connoisseur – takes readers on a no–holds–barred plunge into
what fighting is all about, and what fighters live for. If
George Plimpton had muscles and had been choked out one too
many times––this is the book he could have written. When Robinson and his fellow fighters mix it up, they live
completely for the moment: absorbed in the feel of muscles
slippery with sweat; the metallic tang of blood mingling
with saliva in the mouth; the sweet, firm thud of taped
knuckles impacting flesh. They fight because it feels good.
They fight because they want to win. And even if they get
their asses kicked, they fight because they love fighting. Fight is part encyclopedia, part panegyric to fighting in
all its forms and glory. Robinson's narrative – told in his
trademark tough–guy, stream–of–consciousness noir voice –
punctuates this explanatory compendium of the fighting
world. From wrestling, jiu–jitsu, boxing and muay thai to
bar fighting, hand–to–hand combat, prison fighting and
hockey fights, from the greatest movie fight scenes to how
to throw the perfect left hook, Fight is a scene–by–scene
tour of the bloody but beautiful underworld that is the art
of fighting. With his aficionado's enthusiasm and fast–paced, addictive
voice, Robinson's Fight combines compelling text with
beautiful photographs to create an illustrated book as edgy
and interesting as it is gorgeous.
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