Ivan R. Dee
Pages: 368
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Trim: 6½ x 9¼
978-1-56663-707-7 • Hardback • October 2006 • $27.50 • (£19.99) - Currently out of stock. Copies will arrive soon.
Throughout, Schulberg exhibits a boxing IQ matched by his wit.
— Booklist
Brims with fascinating stories.... Essential reading for all serious students of the sweet science.
— Gordon Marino; The New York Times
There's an operatic, carnival-barker quality to Schulberg's reporting...that reflects the high-low vertigo of the best sports writing.
— Benjamin Healy and Benjamin Schwartz; The Atlantic Monthly
Ringside contains Schulberg's mix of erudition and street authenticity.
— Robert David Jaffee; Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
Having covered boxing for more than 60 years...Budd Schulberg knows a thing or two about the sweet science.
— Carole Goldberg; Hartford Courant
A knockout of a sportswriting collection.
— Dartmouth Alumni Magazine
Schulberg's prose is imperious…Anybody with the slightest interest in the literature of sport should try to get their hands on this book.
— Andrew Baker; Telegraph
Ringside is that rare thing: a sports book by a writer who has truly lived his subject. Boxing has consumed Shulberg for over half a century and it shows on every absorbing page of this wonderful collection.
— Nick Clarke; Independent
At the fights with one of the game's shrewdest analysts