{"product_id":"serenity-a-boxing-memoir-9780805006704","title":"Serenity: A Boxing Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This is a surprising book  a terrific book. Its not about boxing  but about an odd  demanding world in which boxing is the thread  the key to existence. Wiley deftly broadens the delineation of this world and its people. Perceptive reporting is the foundation and perceptive reporting is rare enough. Wiley enhances it with clear  quick writing laced with humor and with a sensitivity that lends brilliance to this impressive work.\"-Robert W. Creamer  author of Baseball and Other Matters in 1941. \"Ralph Wiley  with Serenity  has produced an original book about the ring. . . . He can dig beneath the surface and show us what really happened in a bout: why Thomas Hearns  with too much faith in his powerful right hand  lost to Sugar Ray Leonard in their first match. . . . Or why Roberto Durn was acting out of prudence  not cowardice  when he quit in his second fight against Leonard. . . . Yet the book is not really about boxing. Boxing in Serenity is what T. S. Eliot  speaking of plot  called the meat a burglar brings to distract the watchdog. The book is really about growing up in a world where you had to defend yourself physically to survive.\"-New York Times. \"Wileys rapport with boxers is profound.\"-Publishers Weekly. \"Wiley is one writer who really knows his way around a boxing ring. . . . He writes with passion and understanding about complex  violent men and their oddly redemptive sport.\"-Booklist. Ralph Wiley is the author or coauthor of several works  most recently Born to Play: The Eric Davis Story.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45274670596149,"sku":"ByrdShop_0805006702","price":59.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780805006704.jpg?v=1780497584","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/serenity-a-boxing-memoir-9780805006704","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}