FIGHT, THE(ISBN=) 英文原版

“Entertaining… Mailer continues his familiar shadow-boxing
with the ineffable.” — Time
     In 1975 in Kinshasa, Zaire, at the virtual
center of Africa, two African American boxers were paid five
million dollars apiece to fight each other until one was declared
winner. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging but irrepressible
“professor of boxing” who vowed to reclaim the championship he had
lost. The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was
voluble and who kept his hands in his pockets “the way a hunter
lays his rifle back into its velvet case.” Observing them was
Norman Mailer, whose grasp of the titanic battle’s feints and
stratagems — and whose sensitivity to their deeper symbolism —
make this book a masterpiece of the literature of sport.
     Whether he is analyzing the fighters’
moves, interpreting their characters, or weighing their competing
claims on the African and American souls, Mailer is a commentator
of unparalleled energy, acumen, and audacity — and surely one of
the few intrepid enough to accompany Ali on a late-night run
through the bush. In The Fight he restores our tarnished notions of
heroism to a blinding gleam — and establishes himself as a
champion in his own right.
     “An admirable entertainment…. This book
recalls one to a sense of how delicate an ironist, and how serious
a reporter, Mailer is.” — Saturday Review

Norman Mailer was born in 1923 in Long Branch,
New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955, he was one
of the co-founders of The Village Voice. He is the author of
more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead;
The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book
Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner’s Song, for
which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; Harlot’s Ghost;
Oswald’s Tale; The Gospel According to the Son,
The Castle and the Forest and On God. He died in
2007.

Part I The Dead Are Dying of Thirst
  1.Carnal Indifierence
  2.The Bummer
  3.The Millionaire
  4.A Gang of Champs
  5.Dead Man on the Floor
  6.Our Black Kissinger
  7.Long Voyage
  8.Elmo in Zaire
  9.King of the Flunkies
Part II N’golo
  10.Sorcerers
  11.A Bus Ride
  12.The Dressing Room
  13.Right.Hand Leads
  14.The Man in the Rigging
  15.The Executioner’S Song
  16.The Rains Came
  17.A NewArena
  18.BagarreaDakar
  19.Lucky,the Three.Time Loser