The Gloves A Boxing Chronicle

by Anasi, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780865475991
• ISBN10: 0865475997
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-14
• Publisher: North Point Pr

Summary

In his last year of eligibility, Robert Anasi, age thirty-two, decided to fight in the Golden Gloves tournament, the premier event in amateur boxing. "The gym becomes a way of life," he explains, and so it does for the reader, as Anasi ushers us into the world of training and competition, of friendly rivalry, of artistry and violence. He tells his story not as a journalist on assignment but as a man in the midst of one of the great adventures of his life, and in his hands "a dying blood sport is reincarnated as a metaphor for redemption under flawed circumstances" (Nita Rao, "The Village Voice).

Author Biography

Robert Anasi has boxed in San Francisco and Munich as well as in the Golden Gloves Tournament. He lives by the East River in the warehouse district of Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Table of Contents

A Way of Life	3	(8)
December	11	(16)
History	27	(18)
September	45	(25)
Laura	70	(10)
Head Shots	80	(16)
November	96	(21)
Baywatch	117	(9)
Julian	126	(14)
The Show	140	(13)
January	153	(20)
The Strange Case of the Professor	173	(9)
Respect	182	(11)
The Amateur	193	(15)
February	208	(20)
Knocked	228	(8)
Black (and Blue)	236	(11)
The Fight	247	(19)
The Old Lion	266	(29)
Spring	295	(19)
Boxing	314	(9)
Postscript	323	(10)
Acknowledgments	333