The Devil and Sonny Liston
by Nick Tosches
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Author: Nick ToschesEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-04
ISBN: 0316897752
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Book Review: Writen in raucous American with weaping sores
Summary: 5 Stars
American author Nick Tosches pulls no punches and quotes freely Sonny Liston from his arrest days... A friend of Sonny's put every thing in a nut shell, with the quote,'when Sonny was born was the day he died'dipicting vividly the tough prejudice hard life he would have.He knew poverty hunger and dispair.He knew some good times,he became recognised as formidable when he became world heavyweight boxing champion,he knew what it waslike to have money and buy property.He tasted adulation when he rode a white horse through the streets of Glasgow,he loved children to approach him,he always had time and love for them.There trusting inocence had no inhibitions,and he in turn cradled them in his arms like a gentle giant. He tasted the good for a little while,and then the devil got him through the mob drugs and finally death.Alone forgotten and back in poverty. The day he was born was the day he died.
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