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Hailed as "one of the greatest chroniclers of the mythical American outlaw life" (Entertainment Weekly), James Carlos Blake turns to the blazing story of Stanley Ketchel, the legendary ragtime-era middleweight boxing champion and daring rakehell, whose brief and meteoric life burned with violence and tragedy in and out of the ring. The Killings of Stanley Ketchel is a sweeping and powerful literary adventure by one of our most daring novelists.
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James Carlos Blake is the author of nine novels. Among his literary honors are the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Southwest Book Award, Quarterly West Novella Prize, and Chautauqua South Book Award. He lives in Arizona.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this book following a feature on Stanley Ketchel in Boxing Monthly and found it an absolutely fantastic read.
First and foremost you don't have to be a boxing fan to enjoy this book - it contains some great tales of life in the US in late 1800s to early 1900s, it's similar in style to a John Steinbeck novel but this one is based on a true story.
And what a story this is. It all follows the life of the man who would become middleweight boxing champion but also has some great narrative on events happening at the time. There are lots of stories about bar fights, greed, murder, relationships and life as experienced by a man that ran away from home after thinking he had killed his father. From hobo to champion prizefighter - this story cries out for a major movie to be made!
Utterly compelling. Hat's off to Mr Blake.
First and foremost you don't have to be a boxing fan to enjoy this book - it contains some great tales of life in the US in late 1800s to early 1900s, it's similar in style to a John Steinbeck novel but this one is based on a true story.
And what a story this is. It all follows the life of the man who would become middleweight boxing champion but also has some great narrative on events happening at the time. There are lots of stories about bar fights, greed, murder, relationships and life as experienced by a man that ran away from home after thinking he had killed his father. From hobo to champion prizefighter - this story cries out for a major movie to be made!
Utterly compelling. Hat's off to Mr Blake.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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This is the best boxing book i have ever read. The story captures Ketchels aggressive nature and his gentle love for mother and family. He had an amazing life even though cut far too short. This book is a great read for all boxing fans young or old.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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James Carlos Blake captures the essence of Ragtime boxing halls mingled with the wild west in this epic true-life story from the turn of the 19th/20th century. Blake uses a little poetic licence to tell the tale as there is mostly only anecdotal evidence of much of Ketchel's career, a couple of murky cinema-reel clips of the Jack Johnson and Billy Papke fights aside. It is a testament to the raw power of Stanley Ketchel (48 KO's in 51 wins) that a century after his death he is still revered in boxing circles but this is about his life outside the ring too. After running away from home as a young teenager he lived the life of a hobo riding around the US mid-west by bunking on trains. He finally settled in Butte, Montana where he found work as a bouncer and from where he launched his astonishing boxing career backed by his legendary trainer Pete the Goat. It was in Butte he also met the love of his life, the raven-haired beauty Kate Morgan. As reigning world middleweight champion he famously challenged the great Jack Johnson, the Galveston Giant, for his heavyweight title despite giving away huge advantage in reach, height and weight. Ketchel was almost as wild outside of the ring as he was in it, his lust for women leading to his untimely death at the age of 24 in October 1910. In my humble opinion this story would make a perfect movie, it really is pure Hollywood. A brilliantly written biographical novel, if you are a boxing fan of any age or just love reading adventure novels then this book will not disappoint.
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Fantastic, a must read!
I am very interested in the old timers of boxing and I had heard about Ketchel. He was always portrayed as a sort of wild man of boxing. Read more
Published 3 months ago by sbboxing fan
Legendary fighter great read
Really good book. Stanley Ketchel is always overlooked by historians so its great to read all about his life. Interesting the whole way through, highly recommended !
Published 11 months ago by Ad Mallia
An incredible boxing book
wow. what a story,what a fighter, what a life Stanley Ketchel led.
An absolutely incredible story considering it is fact based and the subject died at 23. Read more
An absolutely incredible story considering it is fact based and the subject died at 23. Read more
Published 22 months ago by eddiet
EXCELLENT
A compelling read based on the life and times of the boxer Stanley Ketchel - the stuff of legend rather than straight biography . . . Read more
Published on 7 Feb 2010 by P. Fraser
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