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Budd Schulberg's celebrated novel of the prize ring has lost none of its power since its first publication almost fifty years ago. Crowded with unforgettable characters, it is a relentless expose of the fight racket. A modern Samson in the form of a simple Argentine peasant is ballyhooed by an unscrupulous fight promoter and his press agent and then betrayed and destroyed by connivers. Mr. Schulberg creates a wonderfully authentic atmosphere for this book that many critics hailed as even better than What Makes Sammy Run? "The quintessential novel of boxing and corruption."—USA Today "The book will stand not only as the novel about boxing but also as a book that indirectly tells more about civilization than do most books about civilization itself."—Arthur Miller. "Brilliant, witty, and amusing—the best book on fighting that I have read."—Gene Tunney. <p>Schulberg, best known for On the Waterfront and A Face in the Crowd, wrote a relentless expose of the fight racket 50 years ago--a celebrated novel of the prize ring that has lost none of its power since its first publication. Crowded with unforgettable characters, The Harder They Fall tells of an Argentinian

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Author

Budd Schulberg; with a new foreword by the author

Publisher

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9781566631075

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.21 / 5 (109 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14