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	"Never has a woman's touch packed more wallop in the boxing ring. Carol Oates hits like a heavyweight."--Gay Talese		"Never has a woman's touch packed more wallop in the boxing ring. Carol Oates hits like a heavyweight."--Gay Talese

			'''FROM THE PUBLISHER'''<br>
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	"No other subject is, for the writer, so intensely personal as boxing. To write about boxing is to write about oneself—however elliptically, and unintentionally. And to write about boxing is to be forced to contemplate not only boxing, but the perimeters of civilization—what it is, or should be, to be 'human'...		"No other subject is, for the writer, so intensely personal as boxing. To write about boxing is to write about oneself—however elliptically, and unintentionally. And to write about boxing is to be forced to contemplate not only boxing, but the perimeters of civilization—what it is, or should be, to be 'human'...

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	Without doubt, it is our most dramatically 'masculine' sport, and our most dramatically 'self-destructive' sport. In this, for some for us, its abiding interest lies."		Without doubt, it is our most dramatically 'masculine' sport, and our most dramatically 'self-destructive' sport. In this, for some for us, its abiding interest lies."

	—Joyce Carol Oates, from the Foreword		''—Joyce Carol Oates, from the Foreword''


	[[Category:Books\|On Boxing]]		[[Category:Books\|On Boxing]]

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	*Written by Joyce Carol Oates		*Written by Joyce Carol Oates
	*ISBN: 0880013850		*ISBN 0880013850
	*Format: Paperback, 216pp		*Format: Paperback, 216pp
	*Pub. Date: November 1994		*Pub. Date: November 1994

Ric at 19:26, 24 July 2005

2005-07-24T19:26:39Z

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*Written by Joyce Carol Oates
*ISBN: 0880013850
*Format: Paperback, 216pp
*Pub. Date: November 1994
*Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

"Never has a woman's touch packed more wallop in the boxing ring. Carol Oates hits like a heavyweight."--Gay Talese

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FROM THE PUBLISHER<br>
"No other subject is, for the writer, so intensely personal as boxing. To write about boxing is to write about oneself—however elliptically, and unintentionally. And to write about boxing is to be forced to contemplate not only boxing, but the perimeters of civilization—what it is, or should be, to be 'human'...

The sport seems in crisis, its best practitioners no less than its most dubious contaminate by association with fixed fights, manipulated judges, questionable referees. Demands for its abolition are made, indignation is aroused, well-argued editorials are printed, deals continue to be made, boxers continue to be, managed.' occasionally there is a boxing match that, in its demonstration of skill, courage, intelligence, hope, seems to redeem the sport—or almost. Perhaps boxing has always been in crisis a sport of crisis.

Without doubt, it is our most dramatically 'masculine' sport, and our most dramatically 'self-destructive' sport. In this, for some for us, its abiding interest lies."

—Joyce Carol Oates, from the Foreword

[[Category:Books|On Boxing]]