The Fight: Norman Mailer

From one of the major innovators of New Journalism, Norman Mailer`s The Fight is the real-life story of a clash between two of the world`s greatest boxers, both in and out of the ring, published in Penguin Modern Classics.

Norman Mailer`s The Fight focuses on the 1974 World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Kinshasa, Zaire. Muhammad Ali met George Foreman in the ring. Foreman`s genius employed silence, serenity and cunning. He had never been defeated. His hands were his instrument, and `he kept them in his pockets the way a hunter lays his rifle back into its velvet case`. Together the two men made boxing history in an explosive meeting of two great minds, two iron wills and monumental egos.