Just enough Liebling
Subtitle: classic work by the legendary New Yorker writer
By: A.J. Liebling ; introduction by David Remnick.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: North Point Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 534
ISBN-13: 9780374104436
Description: "Born a hundred years ago, Abbott Joseph "Joe" Liebling was one of the greatest of all New Yorker writers, a colorful figure who helped set the magazine's urbane tone and style. Today he is best known as a celebrant of the "sweet science" of boxing, and as a "feeder" who ravishes the reader with his descriptions of food and wine." "Liebling is a most companionable figure, and to read the pieces in this book is to be swept along on an adventure in a world of confidence men, rogues, press barons, and political cronies, with an inimitable writer as one's guide."--BOOK JACKET.