Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship - Brossura

Kindred, Dave

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ISBN 10: 0743262123 ISBN 13: 9780743262125

Casa editrice: Free Press, 2007

Riassunto

A dual portrait of the relationship between boxing champion Muhammad Ali and iconic television commentator Howard Cosell describes their markedly disparate racial, educational, and religious backgrounds, offering insight into their sometimes controversial and mutually respectful friendship. By the author of Around the World in 18 Holes. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

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"This book has it all: a great idea, the perfect writer, and two extraordinary characters--Ali and Cosell--whose interconnected lives changed the way we think about sports and society." -- David Maraniss, author of When Pride Still Mattered

"The best books combine a compelling story, superb reporting, and wonderful writing. In Sound and Fury, Dave Kindred has produced all three elements. This is a book that needs to be read and reread to appreciate just how good it is." -- John Feinstein, author of Caddy for Life and Last Dance

"Cosell and Ali: it's impossible to think of one without the other. This dynamic look at two outsized personalities is as unique as was their relationship. Ali and Cosell created a form of synergy that transformed the world they dominated. But the triumph here is Kindred's. His prose floats like a butterfly. His reporting, telling it like it is, stings like a bee. Kindred by a knockout." -- Jane Leavy, author of Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy and Squeeze Play

"In this terrific book, Dave Kindred has not only invented a new form, he has set the platinum standard. Even things I thought I knew about Cosell and Ali are richer here. Sound and Fury is a shrewd, hilarious, and eventually heartbreaking journey into the nooks and crannies of their lives, surprising even for me, and I was there." -- Robert Lipsyte, author of The Contender and The Brave

"I love Muhammad Ali, and I absolutely love this book. It portrays Ali at his most glorious, most flawed, and most heroic. Dave Kindred's Sound and Fury will be the classic Ali biography for generations to come. Plus, there's Howard Cosell agitatin'. What could be more fun?" -- Michael Wilbon, cohost of ESPN's Pardon the Interruption

"Two great American lives demand a great American storyteller. Dave Kindred tells the entwined sagas of Ali and Cosell with depth, feeling, and an indomitable humanity." -- Charles P. Pierce, author of Hard to Forget: An Alzheimer's Story and Sports Guy

"A fine book, honest and carefully reported." -- Jimmy Breslin

"As much a social history of our times as it is a biography of two of our most formidable cultural giants, Sound and Fury emerges clearly as a read quite as important as it is poignant and riveting." -- Bill Nack, author of My Turf: Horses, Boxers, Blood Money, and the Sporting Life and longtime contributor to Sports Illustrated

"We thought we knew everything there was to know about Muhammad Ali, but Kindred tells us more. We knew next to nothing about the man behind the facade that was Howard Cosell, and Kindred tells us everything." -- Thomas Hauser, author of Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times

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• Editore: Free Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0743262123
• ISBN 13: 9780743262125
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400