The bruiser
By: by Jim Tully ; foreword by Gerald Early
Contributors: Early, Gerald Lyn
Publisher: Kent State University Press; The Kent State University Press / Black Squirrel Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Kent, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781606350560
Description: "The Bruiser is the story of Shane Rory, a drifter who turns to boxing and works his way up the heavyweight ranks. Like Tully, Shane starts out as a road kid who takes up prizefighting. While The Bruiser is not an autobiographical work, it does draw heavily on Tully's experiences of the road and ring. Rory is part Tully, but the boxers populating these briskly paced chapters are drawn from the many ring legends the writer counted among his friends...More than just a riveting picture of life in the ring, The Bruiser is a portrait of an America that Jim Tully knew from the bottom up."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: "Edited by Paul J. Bauer and Mark Dawidziak."