O Combate

by Norman Mailer

Overview

A história do maior combate de boxe do século XX: Muhammad Ali versus George Foreman.Em 1975, no Campeonato Mundial de Boxe de Pesos-Pesados disputado em Kinshasa, Zaire, Muhammad Ali encontrou-se com George Foreman no ringue. O génio de Foreman assentava no silêncio, na serenidade e na astúcia. Nunca tinha sido derrotado. As mãos eram o seu instrumento, e «ele mantinha-as dentro dos bolsos como um caçador guarda a sua espingarda no respetivo estojo de veludo». Juntos, os dois homens fizeram da história do boxe um encontro explosivo de duas mentes brilhantes, duas vontades de ferro e dois egos colossais.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789722067836
Publisher:	D. QUIXOTE
Publication date:	05/29/2019
Sold by:	Grupos Editorial Leya
Format:	eBook
File size:	567 KB
Language:	Portuguese

About the Author

Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, producing more than 30 books over his writing career, including an acclaimed account of the fight between Muhammed Ali and George Foreman. His first novel, The Naked and the Dead, has never gone out of print. He is the only person to have won Pulitzers in both fiction (The Executioner's Song) and nonfiction (The Armies of the Night, for which he pioneered a new type of creative nonfiction).

Hometown:

Provincetown, Massachusetts, and New York, New York

Date of Birth:

January 31, 1923

Date of Death:

November 10, 2007

Place of Birth:

Long Branch, New Jersey

Education:

B.S., Harvard University, 1943; Sorbonne, Paris, 1947-48