On Boxing (P.S.)
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Published: August 29, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780060874506
Subjects: Oates, Joyce Carol - Prose & Criticism; Sports & Recreation; Sports; General; Fiction / General; Boxing
First sentence: The young welterweights are surely conscious of the chorus of jeers, boos, and catcalls in this great cavernous space reaching up into the cheap twenty-dollar seats in the balconies amid the constant milling of people in the aisles, the commingled smells of hotdogs, beer, cigarette and cigar smoke, hair oil.