The Fight

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Vintage International, 1997 - Fiction - 234 pages
The author tells the tale of a fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaïre, in 1975, for which each fighter was paid five millions dollars.

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Contents

Carnal Indifference
3
The Bummer
19
The Millionaire
31
Copyright

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About the author (1997)

Norman Kingsley Mailer was born on January 31, 1923 in Long Branch, N. J. and then moved with his family to Brooklyn, N. Y. Mailer later attended Harvard University and graduated with a degree in aeronautical engineering. Mailer served in the Army during World War II, and later wrote, directed, and acted in motion pictures. He was also a co-founder of the Village Voice and edited Disssent for nine years. Mailer has written several books including: The Armies of the Night, which won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and a Polk Award; and The Executioner's Song, which won the Pulitzer Prize. In 2005, he won the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. He published his last novel, The Castle in the Forest, in 2007. He died of acute renal failure on November 10, 2007.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Fight
Vintage books
Vintage international
AuthorNorman Mailer
Editionreprint
PublisherVintage International, 1997
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedAug 23, 2010
ISBN0375700382, 9780375700385
Length234 pages
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Fiction / Literary
Sports & Recreation / Boxing
  
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