Waterfront Fists and Others: The Collected Fight Stories of Robert E. Howard [Hardcover]

Robert E. Howard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 3, 2005

It is impossible to ignore the sheer number of boxing stories that Robert E. Howard wrote. Serious or funny, spooky or adventurous, these stories represent a fierce creative outburst that would pave the way later for his western hero, Breckenridge Elkins. In these stories we see Howard's craft pushed from mere construction to passionate involvement. He took all of his interests and peppered them through the various boxing stories. He wrote them faster than the magazine could print them. Clearly, he loved what he was doing.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 310 pages
• Publisher: Wildside Press (January 3, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592241360
• ISBN-13: 978-1592241361
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,321,654 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

(1906-1936) Robert Erwin Howard was born and rasied in rural Texas, where he lived all his life. The son of a pioneer physician, he began writing professionally at the age of fifteen. Howard killed himself in June 1936 when he learned that his beloved mother had fallen into a coma.

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4.0 out of 5 stars waterfront fists (and others), September 22, 2007

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J. Deckard (lincoln ne usa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Waterfront Fists and Others: The Collected Fight Stories of Robert E. Howard (Paperback)

Waterfront Fists is a great collection of R.E.H. fight fiction. All but two are from his Sailor Steve Costigan series. These comic tales are always funny as Costigan gets into and out of various predicaments, usually involving money, women, or often both.Two of these stories ,Circus Fists and The Sluggers Game are worth the price of the whole book.If you dont know Howard as a humorist, you will after reading these two tales. The only disapointment is that The Iron Man,aka Iron Men,which Howard considered one of his best stories, is presented here in its heavily edited original publication form.However it is available elsewhere in Howards orginal manuscript, so it is interesting to read both and compare.As a bonus ,artwork from the original publications opens each story. You also get two letters Howard wrote about boxing, to a newspaper and magazine.If you like R.E.H.,or are looking for something different in humor I think you will enjoy Waterfront Fists