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Shadow-box

Shadow-box

by Antonia Logue (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

    $3.61

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    Hardcover 1999

    $3.45
Synopsis

A fiction interweaving three characters: Jack Johnson, who punched his way out of the dockyards of Galveston to become the first black heavyweight champion of the world; the English modernist poet Mina Loy; and Arthur Cravan, the Dadaist provocateur who was competing for Mina's heart.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 308
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 13 Dec 1999
ISBN 10: 0747544603
ISBN 13: 9780747544609
Book Overview: A fiction interweaving three characters: Jack Johnson, who punched his way out of the dockyards of Galveston to become the first black heavyweight champion of the world; the English modernist poet Mina Loy; and Arthur Cravan, the Dadaist provocateur who was competing for Mina's heart.

Media Reviews
Every once in a while an astounding new talent makes its presence felt on the literary stage. Antonia Logue is undoubtedly one of these talents. - Toronto Star A fearless excursion into the nature of passion, through the blood-sports of boxing, poetry, and art....A work of astonishing acuity. -Merilyn Simonds Shadow-Box achieves the delicate alchemical reaction by which brute reality is converted into glittering, fictional gold. - The Times (U.K.) An exuberant, audacious debut... - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) She floors the reader in the first seconds and lets you get up only to dazzle you with dancing and floating, feinting and impeccable combinations. - Globe and Mail Immediately engrossing....Its impact, like the best poetry or a powerful left hook, is visceral, intense, and enduring. - Time Out New York Logue's sentences fulminate with vigour and assurance. . . . ÝShe has a fluid, wide-ranging pen and creates hard-assed fight scenes as easily as languid recall of lovers' first meetings. - The Observer (U.K.) This is a furious novel about fighters and poets, fists and decadence, art and rage....The humming, floating, stinging energy of her Jack Johnson pages suggest that Logue is a natural writer....Logue knows how to carve a sentence packed with gusto. . . . -Montreal Gazette Ambitious and wide-ranging....An enjoyable and entertaining novel.... - Times Literary Supplement Imaginatively conceived and elegantly executed. - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Remarkable.... - Booklist (starred review) Logue's writing is boldly descriptive and strikinglytrue....With Shadow-Box Antonia Logue has given us a story that is exciting, significant, and beautifully told. - Uptown Magazine A mesmerizing, beautifully written story... - Sunday Independent (U.K.) ... Outstanding....Any writer who can blend boxing and undying love, Dadaism and racism, mad desire and maddening loneliness to such remarkable effect is certainly one to watch. - Scotland on Sunday Ambitious...ÝAntonia Logue has raised some interesting questions about the balance between great art and life, and the price always mercilessly extracted. -The Irish Times