cover image Reading the Fights: The Best Wright about the Most Controversial Sport

Reading the Fights: The Best Wright about the Most Controversial Sport

. Prentice Hall, $9.95 (305pp) ISBN 978-0-13-761149-2

The editors here present pieces by Michael Stephens, Norman Mailer, Elliot Gorn, George Plimpton, Pete Hamill, A. J. Liebling and others. ``These 23 essays by a variety of writers would have us believe that a boxing match is not a slugfest between two guys hammering at each other's brains,'' asserted PW. (May)