The Harder They Fall
Good Books rating 4.23
Technical:
- ID: 93
- Added: 2025-09-02
- Updated: 2025-09-02
- ISBN: 9780749013172
- Publisher: Allison & Busby
- Published: 2013-04-29
- Reviews: 3
Budd Schulberg's celebrated novel of the prize ring has lost none of its power since its first publication more than fifty years ago. Crowded with unforgettable characters, it is a relentless expose of the fight racket. A modern Samson in the form of a simple Argentine peasant is ballyhooed by an unscrupulous fight promoter and his press agent and then betrayed and destroyed by connivers.
Reviews
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- They made him - then they ganged up on him!
- Punch after punch slashes out at you from the pages of his story.
- Fury and treachery and sinuous passion.
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- Eddie is a manipulator of headlines, an inventor of hyperbole.
- For in the world of 1940s boxing, fixing the game is all too easy.
- It is a relentless exposé of the fight racket.
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- Not one of the characters in the book... is the least bit likable.
- The miserable conclusion to which Schulberg builds is nothing short of extraordinary.
- Great snappy lines from Schulberg, believable fleshed out characters, and a great perspective.