Raging bull : my story
La Motta, Jake1997
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Raised in the Bronx slums, Jake La Motta fought on the streets, got sent to reform school and served time in prison. But the same forces that made him a criminal combined with his drive and intelligence to make him a winner in the boxing ring. This is his candid memoir.}Meet Jake La Motta: thief, rapist, killer. Raised in the Bronx slums, he fought on the streets, got sent to reform school, and served time in prison. Trusting no one, slugging everyone, he beat his wife, his best friends, even the mobsters who kept the title just out of reach. But the same forces that made him a criminalfear, rage, jealousy, self-hate, guiltcombined with his drive and intelligence to make him a winner in the ring. At age twenty-seven, after eight years of fighting, he became Middleweight Champion of the World, a hero to thousands. Then, at the peak of success, he fell apart and began a swift, harrowing descent into nightmare. Raging Bull , the Bronx Bull's brutally candid memoir, tells it allfights, jails, sex, moneysurpassing, in hard-hitting prose, even the movie that immortalized it. }
Main title:
Raging bull : my story / by Jake La Motta with Joseph Carter and Peter Savage.
Edition:
1st Da Cap Press ed.
Imprint:
New York : Da Capo Press, 1997.
Collation:
xii, 222 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1970. With new introd.
ISBN:
9780306808081 (alk paper)
Language:
English
BRN:
928317