The Gloves

The Gloves

Robert Anasi
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A gritty, spirited inside look at the world of amateur boxing today
The Golden Gloves tournament is center stage in amateur boxing-a single-elimination contest in which young hopefuls square off in steamy gyms with the boxing elite looking on.
Robert Anasi took up boxing in his twenties to keep in shape, attract women, and sharpen his knuckles for the odd bar fight. He thought of entering "the Gloves," but put it off. Finally, at age thirty-two-his last year of eligibility-he vowed to fight, although he was an old man in a sport of teenagers and a light man who had to be even lighter (125 pounds) to fight others his size.
So begins Anasi's obsessive preparation for the Golden Gloves. He finds Milton, a wily and abusive trainer, and joins Milton's "Supreme Team": a black teenager who used to deal guns in Harlem, a bus driver with five kids, a hard-hitting woman champion who becomes his sparring partner. Meanwhile, he observes the changing world...

年:
2003
出版商:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
語言:
english
ISBN 10:
146680047X
ISBN 13:
9781466800472
文件:
EPUB, 358 KB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2003
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