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The Fight
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Sports
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Publisher's Summary
In 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaïre, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging but irrepressible "professor of boxing." The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble. Observing them was Norman Mailer, a commentator of unparalleled energy, acumen, and audacity. Whether he is analyzing the fighters' moves, interpreting their characters, or weighing their competing claims on the African and American souls, Mailer's grasp of the titanic battle's feints and stratagems - and his sensitivity to their deeper symbolism - makes this book a masterpiece of the literature of sport.
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- Linda Marea
- 19-06-2018
My first Mailer...
And I’m wondering why I’ve got to this age without him! A product of this time, his views reflect an era of masculine dominance and female subservience but put this aside to soak up his prowess and genius. Find yourself listening to pages over and over again for their beauty and power.
This book is truly artful.
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-09-2017
Masterfully written!!
Masterfully written, capturing Africa, the characters surrounding one of the greatest sporting comebacks of all time, and an era pre
Internet and mobile phone. Mailer seems to have fallen out of favour in modern times, but a fine craftsmen of the English language, seamlessly weaving narrative as rich in substance and colour as you would find in any where.
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- tinyclanger
- 13-04-2020
I enjoyed the heck out of this audiobook
Here is one of the best writers of his generation writing about the best fighter of that time. The book is read by the best and most aptly chosen narrator I remember hearing. The book is of course dated in some of its language and cultural assumptions, being both sexist and racist as context demands. Nevertheless: what a book, even if you're not all that into boxing. I'm not sure they write them like this anymore. I had so much fun.
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- Tanya
- 17-11-2016
Worth the time to read or listen to
Of course I like the description of the fight most of all, but overall a good book. It helps people who don't remember the way George Foreman and Muhammad Ali actually used to be thought of before they got old. Before Foreman became a nice guy who sold grills, and before Ali became famous for his philanthropy and valiant battle with Parkinson's syndrome.
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-11-2016
Boxing's Heavyweights by a Literary Heavyweight
The great triumph of Ali over Foreman in Zaire gets first class coverage by Norman Mailer. With a novelist's flair, Mailer reports on Ali's shocking upset win over George Foreman. Foreman had bludgeoned his way to an Olympic gold medal and then utterly demolished virtually every professional that came his way. Mailer brings us inside the chaos of Zaire, and we get a peek into the camps and personas of both Ali and Foreman. Oddly enough, the most interesting characters in the book are Drew Bundini Brown and the assorted fighters who served as sparring partners for Ali and Foreman. Ali was a huge underdog in the match against a young and terrifyingly destructive Foreman. But Mailer gives the listener a sense of the head games that Ali played on the mind of his less worldly opponent. The culmination of the book is the round by round deconstruction of the fight. Ali's victory seems very much in doubt throughout this book as Foreman stages small rallies and lands blows that would never have landed before in Ali's prime. The genius of Ali and Mailer captures this well, is that Ali made the adjustments and knew better than his corner that the tactics he adopted for Foreman would wear the younger man down.
This is a treat for the boxing fan. More though, it is a treat for the fan of good nonfiction. I have always felt that Mailer's fiction, with the exception of The Naked and the Dead, is quite overrated, but feel that his nonfiction writing (particularly on politics) will stand the test of time. I am not sure we will ever see boxing return to this type of prominence and perhaps it shouldn't. I do know that few writers will ever write this well about sports again.
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- joe amaral
- 17-02-2022
Great writing and fighting
A superb mental reenactment. Describing a gruesome human game in such poetic fashion.This listen from men long past have added to our historical acumen. One can only imagine if we had such an account so intimate of other landmark moments in human history.
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- Katie
- 01-08-2018
Narrator refers to himself in 3rd person.
So as the title states the author refers to himself in 3rd person. Really confused me for a bit! However, besides this an excellent book. I wanted to listen to something on Ali and this was rated as one of the top books about him. I was looking for a biography, and instead got this singular moment in a storied career. It was a suspenseful listen because I had no idea about the outcome of the “Rumble In The Jungle.” As others have states chapters 13-15 is some of the best sports writing you will ever read/listen to.
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- Bookworm
- 14-12-2016
Horrible
I couldn't even finish this book because the author comes across as such an arrogant jackass.
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- Jack Herbert
- 15-04-2021
The story you thought you knew
Norman brings the few months spent in Kinshasa, Zaire to life in a way I could never have imagined. The little details about a story we all know, fleshed out and told in a style it seems nobody but Mr Mailer would possibly be capable of. This is a must for any sports fan.
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- HK
- 14-12-2018
Firework memories astutely distilled
From the opening narrative on the majesty of Ali, until the final act, a great delivery captures the essence of a historic event.
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- Stop the lights
- 03-12-2018
Can't decipher where Norman Mailer writes.
Although I recognise much of the writing as Norman Mailers prose I cannot decipher where Norman Mailer writes and the narrator speaking about Mailer begins.
The story itself is the stuff of legend.
Although some chat of witchcraft no mention of "The succubus has got him!" of witch which apparently put a spell on Foreman. This added much to the story in When we were Kings. No dwelt on in this story.
Nevertheless good.
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- Anonymous User
- 29-07-2019
great
a classic report of one the greatest moments in history.
Mailer felt the magic, and reports it accordingly.
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