Ebook {Epub PDF} The Professional by W.C. Heinz

While the plot is mostly straightforward, W.C. Heinz investigates what it means to be a champion prize fighter—both in and out of the ring. Elmore Leonard and Ernest Hemingway praised this work for a reason. “The Professional” masterfully brings characters to life with realism and sincerity and dialogue/5. The Professional is W. C. Heinz at the top of his game—the writer who covered the fights better than anyone else of his era, whose lean sentences, rough-and-ready dialogue, dry wit, and you-are-there style helped lay the foundation for the New Journalism of Jimmy Breslin, Gay Talese, and Tom Wolfe. And all the trademark qualities of W. C. Heinz are on ample display in this novel that Pete Hamill described /5(84).  · Originally published in , The Professional is the story of boxer Eddie Brown's quest for the middleweight championship of the world. But it is so much more. W. C. Heinz not only serves up a realistic depiction of the circus-like atmosphere around boxing with its assorted hangers-on, crooked promoters, and jaded journalists, but he gives us two memorable characters in Eddie Brown and in .

The Professional is W. C. Heinz at the top of his game--the writer who covered the fights better than anyone else of his era, whose lean sentences, rough-and-ready dialogue, dry wit, and you-are-there style helped lay the foundation for the New Journalism of Jimmy Breslin, Gay Talese, and Tom Wolfe. Originally published in , The Professional is the story of boxer Eddie Brown's quest for the middleweight championship of the world. But it is so much more. W. C. Heinz not only serves up a realistic depiction of the circus-like atmosphere around boxing with its assorted hangers-on, crooked promoters, and jaded journalists, but he gives us two memorable characters in Eddie Brown and in. W.C. Heinz is the author of The Professional ( avg rating, ratings, reviews, published ), The Top of His Game ( avg rating, 44 ratin.

W.C. Heinz is the author of The Professional ( avg rating, ratings, reviews, published ), The Top of His Game ( avg rating, 44 ratin. Being a boxing writer myself for many years, I can now totally appreciate it when people told me for years that "The Professional" by W.C. Heinz was the best boxing book ever written and one of the greatest novels of all time. There's even an introduction by iconic Elmore Leonard, where he credits Heinz as being one of his mentors. Heinz edited two boxing anthologies, The Fireside Book of Boxing and The Book of Boxing with Nathan Ward. Heinz's additional books include Run to Daylight with football coach Vince Lombardi, The Surgeon, Emergency and Once They Heard the Cheers, in which the author travels the.