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Sparring with Hemingway: And Other Legends of the Fight Game
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Sparring with Hemingway: And Other Legends of the Fight Game Hardcover - 1995

by Budd Schulberg

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  • Hardcover
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1995 Ivan R. Dee hardcover 1st edition inscribed by the author on the ffep ("For Dan, wishing you much success with that first novel. And thanks for the expert driving ! Yours, Budd Schulberg."). Slight tilt to spine, a bit of soil on edge, else fine.
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  • Title Sparring with Hemingway: And Other Legends of the Fight Game
  • Author Budd Schulberg
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ivan R. Dee, Chicago
  • Date 1995
  • Features Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 5679
  • ISBN 9781566630801 / 1566630800
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.75 x 5.89 x 0.99 in (22.23 x 14.96 x 2.51 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Boxing - United States - History, Boxing in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94049153
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.830

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From the rear cover

Budd Schulberg's love affair with boxing began when he was twelve, when his father took him to the fights at the Hollywood Legion. Over the years, between his celebrated novels and screenplays, he has been Sports Illustrated's first boxing editor and covered title bouts for Playboy, Esquire, Newsday, and the New York Post. Sparring with Hemingway collects for the first time the best of Mr. Schulberg's "takes" on the Sweet Science, from "The Great" Benny Leonard to Muhammad Ali to George Foreman: memorable personalities and their unforgettable fights. Mr. Schulberg is a passionate fan as well as an expert observer (of boxing and human nature), and his stories capture the sights, sounds, and sometimes even the smells of the fight game. Along with vivid pieces on the great fights and the great fighters of the last seventy-five years, Mr. Schulberg offers reflections on the social history of boxing, explores the mystique of the heavyweight championship, rails against the seamy side of the boxing business, and recalls his celebrated sparring match with Ernest Hemingway, when two aficionados of "the game" had a verbal (verging on physical) go at each other. In the opinion of anxious onlookers, "Papa bullied him all over the ring but finally quit between rounds".

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  • Booklist, 06/01/1995, Page 1716
  • Library Journal, 06/15/1995, Page 76
  • New York Times, 07/09/1995, Page 21
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/24/1995, Page 54

About the author

Budd Schulberg is also the author of What Makes Sammy Run?, The Harder They Fall, The Disenchanted, On the Waterfront (play and screenplay), and Moving Pictures: Memories of a Hollywood Prince. He lives in Westhampton Beach, New York.

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