On boxing
By: Joyce Carol Oates ; with photographs by John Ranard.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Dolphin/Doubleday
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
Subjects: Boxing.
Description: Examines boxing in various aspects: boxing as metaphor, spectacle, dance, history, lore, women and boxing, etc.
Notes: "Parts of this essay have appeared, in earlier versions, in the New York times magazine (June 16, 1985) and the Ontario review (fall/winter, 1986)"--Verso of t.p.
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