 | Then he made a curious remark one could think about for the rest of the week. It was characteristic of a great deal about Foreman. “Excuse me for not shaking hands with you,” he said in that voice so carefully muted to retain his power, “but you see I’m keeping my hands in my pockets. |
The Fight is Norman Mailer’s account of the historical boxing match that took place on October 30th, 1974 between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali. Learn more about it on Wikipedia.
From the jacket of the first edition:
“The Fight shows off Norman Mailer in the sharpest writing trim of his career. Three champions ― Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, and Norman Mailer ― converge to Zaïre, Africa, for a fifteen-round, heavyweight-title “rumble in the jungle”, and the outcome is fast, funny, and truly explosive: Mailer’s most perceptive writing to date about the sport he knows best and the play of forces, the carnival of personalities, that surrounds him.”
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