Nocaute - Cinco Histórias de Boxe

by Jack London

Há quem pense que a literatura e o boxe jamais poderiam andar juntos, que ao primor e requinte da primeira se oporiam a fúria e a brutalidade do segundo. Ainda assim, de todos os esportes, o boxe parece ser o que mais tem marcado presença na literatura, principalmente na norte-americana.

215 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

John Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.

London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of animal rights, workers’ rights and socialism. London wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.

His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in Alaska and the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen".

Reviews

[Randal Torezan · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book is incredible. Each story shows a different view of Boxing and different views of life. as we have 5 endings, each story puts you inside it in a different way, each one being amazing in its own way.

[Flavio Rocha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jack London, sempre surpreendendo. Ele consegue dentro de uma história fazer paralelos com a nossa vida que é muito inquietante