Includes three stories, three portraits of young men learning the realities of adult life. In "Boxing", two young men confront each other in the fight of their lives. They face the ultimate test, the encounter on which not only their present, but their future depends.

In the first English translation of an important new generation Italian author, t hree short stories ofeveryday life presentcharacters bound together by fate and struggling to find a meaning in human existence These stories presentthree portraits of young men learning the realities of adult life. Boxing takes us into the world of gyms, a world of bodies and nerves stretched...(展开全部)

'Boxing', 'Horses' and 'The Monkey': three powerful coming-of-age stories about boys confronting reality, and fighting to stay alive in a man's world. In 'Fists', a teenage amateur boxer steps into the ring for the first time, and finds himself in a face-off with Life in all its muscular force; in 'Horses', two brothers embark on their first forays into adulthood, each learning...(展开全部)