portada Fighting is Like a Wife (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Eloisa Amezcua

Editorial

Coffee House Press

Año

2022

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.6x17.5x0.8 cm

Peso

0.16 kg.

ISBN13

9781566896344

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Relativo a los hispanoamericanos/latinoamericanos (en ee.uu.)
Poesía

Fighting is Like a Wife (en Inglés)

Eloisa Amezcua (Autor) · Coffee House Press · Tapa Blanda

Libro Nuevo Importado

Envío: 16 a 23 días háb.

$ 44.84$ 22.42

-50%

Costos de importación incluídos en el precio ✅

Libro Nuevo

Quedan más de 100 unidades

$ 22.42

Llega entre el 16 Sep y el 29 Sep a Quito, Pichincha. Seleccionar ubicación

Agregar a lista de deseos

Reseña del libro "Fighting is Like a Wife (en Inglés)"

In Fighting Is Like a Wife, Eloisa Amezcua uses striking visual poems to reconstruct the love story--and the tragedy--of two-time world boxing champion "Schoolboy" Bobby Chacon and his first wife, Valorie Ginn. Bobby took to fighting the way a surfer takes to water: the waves and crests, the highs and the pummeling lows. Valorie, as girlfriend, then wife, then mother of their children, was proud of Bobby and how he found a way out of the harsh world they were born into. But the brain-sloshing blows, the women, and the alcohol began to take their toll, and soon Bobby couldn't hear her anymore. With her fate affixed to Bobby's, and Bobby's to the ring, Valorie sought her own way out of this dilemma. Using haunting, visceral language to evoke the emotion of the fight, and incorporating direct quotations from sports commentators and Bobby himself, Fighting Is Like a Wife reveals how boxing, like love and poetry, can be brutal, vulnerable, and surprising.