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Cut Time: An Education at the Fights

Cut Time: An Education at the Fights Paperback / softback - 2005

by Carlo Rotella

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As his affection for boxing grows, Rotella discovers that it sheds a startling light on the world outside the ring. As he traces his surprising immersion in the fight world, he achieves what few other writers on that world have: he makes it relevant, whether readers are fans or not.

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Paperback / softback. New. Chronicles the author's immersion in the fight world, from the brutal classroom of the gym to the spectacle of fight night. An award-winning writer and ringside veteran, he unearths the hidden wisdom in any kind of fight, from barroom brawl to HBO extravaganza. In this book he makes the fight world relevant to us, whether we're fans or not.
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  • Title Cut Time: An Education at the Fights
  • Author Carlo Rotella
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition Reprint Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 236
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Date 2005-09-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780226725567
  • ISBN 9780226725567 / 0226725561
  • Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.52 x 5.58 x 0.55 in (21.64 x 14.17 x 1.40 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Boxing, Rotella, Carlo
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005009471
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.83

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RINGSIDE comes into being whenever the hitting starts and both combatants know how to do it.

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About the author

Carlo Rotella is professor of English and director of the American Studies Program at Boston College. He is the author of Good with Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt and October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post Magazine, Harper's, and the American Scholar, which named one of his boxing pieces its Best Essay of the Year. His work has also been published in The Best American Essays. Rotella was awarded the 2004 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award.