This carefully crafted anthology of boxing literature brings together for the first time in a single volume some of the best writing on the sport from Britain and the USA. Spanning more than sixty years of the modern era, from Tunney to Tyson, it includes coverage of over twenty title fights, many of them classics, and features all eight weight divisions from flyweight to heavyweight. Come out Writing presents the myriad aspects of the sport from as many different viewpoints: here are Norman Mailer on Ali and Foreman: Peter Wilson on Louis and Walcott: George Kimball and Hugh McIlvanney on the Hagler-Leonard controversy.
- ISBN13 9781840182064
- Publish Date 7 October 1999 (first published 1 July 1991)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 February 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Mainstream Publishing
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English