On Boxing (P.S.)

On Boxing (P.S.)
by Joyce Carol Oates

On Boxing (P.S.)
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Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-08-29
ISBN: 0060874503
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Summary of On Boxing (P.S.)

A reissue of bestselling, award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates' classic collection of essays on boxing.

Yes, the same Joyce Carol Oates who packs one of the most lethal punches in American literature also happens to be an astute observer of the sweet science. Oates filters her knockout collection of essays through multifaceted prisms of art, history, sexuality, and politics to directly confront and explore boxing's physical and commercial brutality, but also the sense of human struggle and survival that's at boxing's purest core. "In the boxing ring," she writes, "man is in extremis, performing an atavistic rite ... for the mysterious solace of those who can participate only vicariously in such drama: the drama of life in the flesh. Boxing has become America's tragic theater." And from her ringside perspective, Oates, a true heavyweight of letters, analyzes the performances just brilliantly.

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