The Fight

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'. This book focuses on the 1975 World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Kinshasa, Zaire.

Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was one of the great post-War American writers, both as a novelist and as one of the key inventors of the New Journalism. His books include the novels The Naked and the Dead , The Deer Park , Why Are We in Vietnam? , The Executioner's Song and Harlot's Ghost and the non-fiction works The Armies of the Night , A Fire on the Moon (published in the USA as Of a Fire on the Moon ) and The Fight . He won the National Book Award and twice won the Pulitzer Prize.