Ray Robinson
1) Electricity
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Ray Robinson's visceral, ambitious debut novel Electricity is a tour de force portrayal of a heroine you will not soon forget. Thirty-year-old Lily O'Connor lives with epilepsy, uncontrollable surges of electricity that leave her in a constant state of edginess. Prickly, up-front-honest and down-to-earth practical, Lily has learned to make do, to make the most of things, to look after – and out for – herself. Then her mother – whom Lily has...
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Many consider “Sugar” Ray Robinson the greatest pound-for-pound boxer in history. And this riveting biography tells it all: Ray's rise from poverty, his Golden Gloves triumphs, his bouts with Jake LaMatta, his rumbles with Rocky Graziano, his stint with Uncle Sam, and his 125 consecutive victories. Listeners also join Ray in his struggles with the IRS and the Mafia. Peter Jay Fernandez's narration and Herb Boyd's words make a winning combination...
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Hailed by critics as a long overdue portrait of Sugar Ray Robinson, a man who was as elusive out of the ring as he was magisterial in it, Pound for Pound is a lively and nuanced profile of an athlete who is arguably the best boxer the sport has ever known. So great were Robinson's skills, he was eulogized by Woody Allen, compared to Joe Louis, and praised by Muhammad Ali, who called him "the king, the master, my idol." But the same discipline that...