"Boxing is not just fighting," writes Carlo Rotella. "It is also training and living right and preparing to go the distance in the broadest sense of the phrase, a relentless managing of self that anyone who gets truly old must learn." Rotella's Cut Time chronicles his immersion in the fight world, from the brutal classroom of the gym to the spectacle of fight night. An award-winning writer and ringside veteran, Rotella unearths the hidden wisdom in any kind of fight, from barroom brawl to HBO extravaganza.
Tracing the consequences of hurt and craft, the two central facts of boxing, Rotella reveals moving resonances between the worlds inside and outside the ropes. The brief, disastrous fistic career of one of his students pinpoints the moment when adulthood arrives; the hard-won insight of a fellow fan shows Rotella how to reckon with a car crash. Mismatches, resilience, pride, pain, and aging—Rotella's lessons from the ring extend far beyond the sport. In Cut Time, Rotella achieves the near-impossible: he makes the fight world relevant to us, whether we're fans or not.
"Cut Time should be read not just by fight aficionados but also by fans of intelligent nonfiction writing. . . . An absorbing read."—Sports Illustrated
"Just when you think it's all been written, a good writer takes a shining new look at an old subject and breathes life into it. . . . Rotella has preserved the blow-by-blow and the grandeur of another age but has somehow expanded the ring to include his own generation's proclivities and sensibility."—Los Angeles Times
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"Carlo Rotella writes with his mind, his heart, and his gut. The result is prose that leaves you breathless. As one of his boxers says about another, 'He can hit.'"--Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down and Ex Libris
--Anne Fadiman
"This is a superb book about the noble squalor of the world of prizefighting. Carlo Rotella has given us an account that is acutely observed and elegantly written, charged on every page with intelligence, pity, surprise, and yes, a kind of wisdom."--Pete Hamill, author of A Drinking Life and Forever
--Pete Hamill
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Book Description Condition: New. Chronicles the author's immersion in the fight world, from the brutal classroom of the gym to the spectacle of fight night. An award-winning writer and ringside veteran, he unearths the hidden wisdom in any kind of fight, from barroom brawl to HBO extravaganza. In this book he makes the fight world relevant to us, whether we're fans or not. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: WSTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 215 x 22. Weight in Grams: 290. . 2005. New ed. Paperback. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9780226725567
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Book Description Condition: New. Chronicles the author's immersion in the fight world, from the brutal classroom of the gym to the spectacle of fight night. An award-winning writer and ringside veteran, he unearths the hidden wisdom in any kind of fight, from barroom brawl to HBO extravaganza. In this book he makes the fight world relevant to us, whether we're fans or not. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: WSTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 215 x 22. Weight in Grams: 290. . 2005. New ed. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9780226725567