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Raging Bull: My Story (Paperback)
by Jake La Motta (Author), Joseph Carter (Author), Peter Savage (Author) "There was this bookie, Harry Gordon..." (more)
Key Phrases: seventeen hundred bucks, boxing commission, title shot, Father Joseph, Jake La Motta, New York (more...)
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In prose as straightforward and at times as brutal as his style in the ring, former middleweight champion Jake LaMotta wove together an unforgettable autobiography: first published in 1970, Raging Bull was violent, candid, primitive, smart, and altogether powerful. It still is. His story, adapted for the screen in 1980 by Martin Scorsese in the Oscar-winning film starring Robert De Niro, is filled with anger--at his father for beating him, at the neighborhood he grew up in, at the petty criminal he became, at the Mob that tried to keep him from the title because he wouldn't take a dive--and real candor about the dive he did take (out in the real world when his boxing career was over). While most of LaMotta's anger was self-directed, he harnessed enough of it to power him to 83 victories in 106 fights, and a two-year hold on a championship belt. His recounting of his ring wars with Sugar Ray Robinson and Marcel Cerdan remain as convincingly primal on the page as they were in the arena.

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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 criminal—fear, rage, jealousy, self-hate, guilt—combined 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 all—fights, jails, sex, money—surpassing, in hard-hitting prose, even the movie that immortalized it.


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Product Details
  • Paperback: 222 pages
  • Publisher: Da Capo Press; New Ed edition (August 21, 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0306808080
  • ISBN-13: 978-0306808081
  • Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars 15 customer reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #163,709 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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First Sentence:
There was this bookie, Harry Gordon. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
seventeen hundred bucks, boxing commission, title shot, mob guys
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Father Joseph, Jake La Motta, New York, Harry Gordon, Miami Beach, Jesus Christ, Rocky Graziano, Billy Fox, Diamond Belt, Bronx Bull, Joe Louis, Madison Square Garden, Tony Zale, Dan Parker, Marcel Cerdan, Sugar Ray Robinson, Collins Avenue, Lower East Side, Wide World, Laurent Dauthuille, Martha Raye, Mister Nice, Sally Carlton, Sing Sing, Yankee Stadium
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