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The Fight

by Norman Mailer

$13.95

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BOOK DETAILS

Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: Oct.01.1997
ISBN: 9780375700385
Publisher(s): Knopf Publishing Group

Norman gives an overview of the book:

The “fight” is the 1975 world heavyweight championship bout in Zaire between then reigning king of the ring Muhammad Ali and up-and-coming George Foreman. Mailer relays the events of the actual fight and includes the observations of George Plimpton, Hunter S. Thompson, and others.

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About Norman

Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist from Brooklyn, New York. A journalist, playwright, screenwriter and film director, Mailer had an extraordinary career as an innovator of creative nonfiction. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction in...

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Published Reviews

Sep.06.2007

"I want to go ahead and do it"

Published by The New York Times

This is an absolutely astonishing book.

Dec.13.2007

Maestro of the Human Ego

Published by The New York Times

This remarkable novel about the young Adolf Hitler, his family and their shifting circumstances, is Mailer’s most perfect apprehension of the absolutely alien. No wonder it is narrated by a devil. Mailer...