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The Devil and Sonny Liston (Paperback)

by Nick Tosches (Author) "THE CORPSE WAS ROLLED OVER AND LAY FACE down on the metal slab ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; Reprint edition (31 Dec 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0316897469
  • ISBN-13: 978-0316897464
  • Product Dimensions: 20.9 x 14.1 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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A biography of the controversial fighter follows Liston from the mean streets, where he was a petty criminal, to the heavyweight championship and his life as a pawn of organized crime. By the author of Power on Earth. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Writen in raucous American with weaping sores, 26 April 2001
By Derek Stiles (Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Devil and Sonny Liston (Hardcover)
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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