- Taschenbuch: 288 Seiten
- Verlag: Little, Brown and Company; Auflage: Reprint (Dezember 2001)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0316897469
- ISBN-13: 978-0316897464
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,9 x 14,1 x 2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.1 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (22 Kundenrezensionen)
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Now in paperback: Nick Tosches's brutal, stunning, and widely praised biography of Sonny Liston -- the world heavyweight champion who hit harder than any man alive, and who embodied everything that is compelling and terrifying about boxing.
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A biography of the controversial fighter follows Liston from the mean streets, where he was a petty criminal, to the heavyweight championship and his life as a pawn of organized crime. By the author of Power on Earth. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I've read and loved the biographies Tosches did of Jerry Lee Lewis and Dean Martin, which I suppose are classics in a way, and the novel "Cut Numbers" is okay if a little too "Mean Streets"-ish. "Trinities" [another novel] is a mishmash, too ambitious perhaps, trying to be more than genre and ending up bad genre as a result. This Sonny Liston book -- who put Tosches up to writing this? It's too plainly obvious that he knows zip about boxing, in fact I really wonder if he's ever seen either of the Clay/Ali fights: Tosches just doesn't know what he's talking about. And there are Italian-Americans, mafioso or not, who will tell you, in New York bars [where Tosches famously does a lot of his "research"], that every big fight you've ever heard of has been fixed and they know who fixed it and why -- it makes good gossip after everyone's had a few drinks and it cannot be disproved. This was a bad topic for Tosches to go after. He tries to bluster his way through and squanders credibility as he does.
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Eddie Machen did not run from Sonny Liston as Mr. Tosches maintains. I saw the fight on televsion and what was clear that Machen by going side to side and backward was trying to get Liston to swing over and and wide of him so Machen could counter. I thought it worked but the judges didn't. But Machen didn't run. There's nothing in boxing which says you have to stand infront of your opponent.
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The cover of this book tells the story...
Black and white, shades of light encapsulating the scene, a man, on all fours struggling to rise.
Sonny Liston was a walking contradiction. On one hand he could be brutal and cruel, cold, and uncarring.
Then in the blink of eye, he's playing with children, laughing and smiling.
The children respond, unafraid of a man who scared so many others.
Nick Tosches captures the essence of Liston, the many sides, moods, and moments of the former champs life.
It's not a pretty picture, the mob is everywhere, filtering in and out of Liston's life like a long dark shadow.
Torches research is amazing, his writing of the Liston family is highly informative. Going in i already knew quite a bit about Sonny, but Tosches uncovers facts that i had never read before.
This is not a book for everybody. Tosches style is blunt and hard, like a left hook to the jaw, he wanders sometimes, but like the man he is writing about ultimatly there is understanding.
If your a boxing fan, you might be disappointed at the short shift Tosches gives to a number of Liston's fights. It's the behind the scenes activity he wants to tell you about, the wheeling and dealing thats so compelling.
It's brutal and sad..
Highly Recomended
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Scattered, but compelling read.
Another fine Nick Tosches biography. Tosches is not for everybody as style invades substance with much more frequency than classic biographies. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 18. Juni 2000 von David E. Hintz
Fortunately Liston is bigger than Tosches
Nick Tosches is a wannabe. A fellow who tries too hard to be a tough-guy New York scribe, a hard-boiled Jimmy Breslin been-there badge-out type, who uses too many gratuitous... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 13. Juni 2000 von richard_t
Great Bio of a Misunderstood Man
This was an excellent bio by a fine writer. At times I thought he swayed from the subject of Mr. Liston and lost his clear and consice voice, but these instances were relitvely... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 12. Juni 2000 von Michael L. Cesta
Oops
It is obvious here that Nick Tosches got too hung up trying to write a tough guy biography in a fast paced beat. Unfortunalty, Nick runs out of steam before he bumps into Liston. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 6. Juni 2000 veröffentlicht
Let the Sonny go down on this one
This isn't much of a bio. The writing is OK but in order to build up Sonny, Tosches ignores events, picks and chooses from wildly different versions to suit his beliefs and throws... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 2. Juni 2000 von Brett Sonnenschein
Not Worth the Wait
All you have to know about this book and how much the author knows about boxing, is this: Nick Tosches stated that Archie Moore threw his fight with Rocky Marciano. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 2. Juni 2000 von Hawk
UNDERSTANDING WITHOUT REDEMPTION
HERE, TOSCHES DOES THE IMPOSSIBLE---HE PUTS A HUMAN FACE ON ONE OF THE GREAT MONSTERS OF MODERN SPORTS. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 1. Juni 2000 veröffentlicht
Highly recommended
If one can adjust to the author's somewhat unconventional writing style (and I did), this is an excellent biography for anyone who is interested in Liston's life. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 19. Mai 2000 von P. Meltzer
Not so sure about this one...
I enjoyed reading Nick Tosches' book about Sonny Liston, mostly for entertainment purposes. While I respect the amount of personal research and exhuming Tosches did, I still find... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 19. Mai 2000 von Alissa Herbert
Makes Me Want to Holler
This is one of those rare books; I love it, yet it drives me crazy. I like Tosches' hardboiled style (although sometimes I read a paragraph two or three times and didn't know what... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 15. Mai 2000 veröffentlicht
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