Cut Time: an Education at the Fights - Hardcover

"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"
"One of the best boxing books ever written."--"Chronicle of Higher Education
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""Cut Time" should be read not just by fight aficionados but also by fans of intelligent nonfiction writing.. Rotella delivers a clear-eyed report that sets aside the question of whther boxing is good or evil and instead describes precisely what a life in boxing entails . . . An absorbing read."--"Sports Illustrated"
"""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"
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"One of the best boxing books ever written."--Chronicle of Higher Education

"A wonderful book. . . . Cut Time is aimed at everyone, even readers who can''t imagine that they could ever learn anything from men slugging it out in a ring. They can."--Gordon Marino, Wall Street Journal

"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

"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

"His carefully crafted prose...demonstrates a gift for language as well as an in-depth understanding of boxing....Rotella''s essays, with their marriage of literary analysis and the hard-knocks reality of the fights, are a welcome addition to the vast library of boxing literature."--Publishers Weekly

"Cut Time should be read not just by fight aficionados but also by fans of intelligent nonfiction writing.. Rotella delivers a clear-eyed report that sets aside the question of whther boxing is good or evil and instead describes precisely what a life in boxing entails . . . An absorbing read."--Sports Illustrated

CARLO ROTELLA's writing has appeared in the Washington Post Magazine, DoubleTake, Harper's, and The American Scholar, which named one of his boxing pieces Best Essay of the Year. His work also has been published in The Best American Essays. He teaches English at Boston College.