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Night Train: A Biography of Sonny Liston (Paperback)

by Nick Tosches (Author)
2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin; New edition edition (26 April 2001)
  • ISBN-10: 0140279784
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140279788
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 229,859 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Nick Tosches writes like Sonny Liston hit." Chuck Wepner "Shooting from the hip with his vivid, demotic prose, Nick Tosches brings Liston and the lurid underworld of boxing brilliantly to life." Esquire "[Night Train] is as much about Liston and boxing as it is about the darkest side of the American Dream. Liston's story comes alive though clean, evocative prose, hard facts and lyrical, occasionally breathtaking writing." Time Out "From his birth into a slave family to his death at the hands of the mob, boxer Sonny Liston's life was a series of tragedies. Tosches leaves no stone untouched." Maxim"


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"[Night Train] is as much about Liston and boxing as it is about the darkest side of the American Dream. Liston's story comes alive though clean, evocative prose, hard facts and lyrical, occasionally breathtaking writing" Time Out
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars powerful if messy, 26 Aug 2004
By Elberry (Manchester, England) - See all my reviews
Tosches brings Liston to life for about 250 pages, as a formidable and unhappy man in a particularly strange and unhappy world. It's not a biography as such - it's more a study of the sometimes bleak, sometimes exciting world in which Liston lived, centred on but not exclusive to him. So there's lots on Tosche's interests: gangsters and violence, mainly. The book occasionally wanders away from Liston, and i sometimes found myself trying to remember who such and such a mobster was, and what his connection with Mobster X and Fixer Y.

The book is written in Tosche's Faulkner-tinged style: unembarrassed about greatness and drama and potent speculation, and so perhaps not to the taste of dry-as-dust types and those who dislike adjectives; for Sonny Liston, i feel the style is appropriate.

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but flawed, 8 Oct 2001
By ns_milbourne@hotmail.com (Cumbria, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Night Train: The Sonny Liston Story (Hardcover)
I have to confess that I was slightly disappointed by this book. Don't get me wrong, it is still an interesting read, but Tosches fails to provide new insight into the cause of his death, amongst other things. He also insists on putting forward his conspiracy theories on the two Clay-Liston fights, using all manner of circumstantial "evidence" and conjecture to suggest that the fights were fixed in Clay's favour. It is as if Tosches is oblivious to what Clay-Ali achieved over the next fifteen years, or that Liston was aging, overconfident and poorly conditioned. Tosches' bias towards those he obviously dislikes brings down the overall tone of the book.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Too clever for its own good, 30 May 2000
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This review is from: Night Train: The Sonny Liston Story (Hardcover)
"Night Train" is a very meticulously researched and ultimately very informative and interesting book. Unfortunately Tosches seems to devote a lot of energy to slagging off Cassius Clay and his associates such as Norman Mailer. Much of his time is spent trying to be a clever writer when he would do better by just concentrating on what was a fascinating life.
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1.0 out of 5 stars For such an intersesting man, a very poor book
Given that Sonny Liston lived a life fill of notoriety, I really expected to find & learn some great things in this book about the man. Read more
Published on 1 Oct 2007 by John From London Town MBE

4.0 out of 5 stars A good read but overlong
I found this to be an interesting read albeit a little long on unnecessary detail(the indictments of Liston's gangster associates, for example). Read more
Published on 21 Jul 2006 by Doog

2.0 out of 5 stars too much detail!
i've long been fascinated by this enigmatic and much maligned prizefighter. there's so much material here that any biography is bound to be of interest. Read more
Published on 15 Nov 2001 by firetrapster@aol.com

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