It is the willful destruction of neurological matter for the entertainment of many and the profit of a few. It is the rich exploiting the poor. It is the sacrifice of human flesh. Yet, it has its appeal. This is the often degrading, sometimes exhilarating world of boxing, where questions of race, class, violence, and sexuality linger in the air. In My Father's Fighter, Vincent Rosen, a 35-year-old Manhattan English teacher, inherits the management of a prize fighter from his father Solly, a prosperous garment district ...
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It is the willful destruction of neurological matter for the entertainment of many and the profit of a few. It is the rich exploiting the poor. It is the sacrifice of human flesh. Yet, it has its appeal. This is the often degrading, sometimes exhilarating world of boxing, where questions of race, class, violence, and sexuality linger in the air. In My Father's Fighter, Vincent Rosen, a 35-year-old Manhattan English teacher, inherits the management of a prize fighter from his father Solly, a prosperous garment district wheeler/dealer. The fighter is Mickey Davis, a white, light-heavy-weight contender with a doomed air, a reputation for dirty fighting, and more neuroses and sexual obsessions than Vincent's privileged adolescent students. With his Ivy League education, inherited wealth, and bookish nature, Vincent defiantly does not share his father's passion for boxing. Yet he is slowly seduced by the fight world. Vincent must soon do business with Mickey's trainer, Harry Gainesworth, an autodidactic former fighter with theories on everything from race relations to why fight managers are no better than pimps. Lurking in the background are Solly Rosen's loquacious ex-con bookies and Solly's attorney, a cherubic charmer who always has a table at the best mob joint in town. Vincent's sexy, droll, doctor wife Elizabeth, the beautiful daughter of a Park Avenue building superintendent, quickly comes to see her husband's encounter with the fight world as a crucible that will determine their future. My Father's Fighter is a comic tale that moves from the privileged streets of the Upper East Side and the masculine milieu of boxing gyms to the high roller casinos and down-and-out bars of Las Vegaswhere Vincent Rosen is left to contemplate the ways he is both like and unlike his unlucky fighter.
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