The Fighting Fisherman - Softcover
Yvon Durelle fought from the tiny Acadian hamlet of Baie Ste. Anne to within a heartbeat of being light-heavyweight boxing champion of the world.
Durelle emerges in this book as a man of contradictions. His lifelong nickname was "Doux"--gentle--but he mastered a spectacularly brutal profession. Accounts of his fighting career reveal a man of incredible toughness and audacity: in 1952 he fought Olympic gold medalist Floyd Patterson with a broken hand. His life outside the ring was equally audacious: in 1977 he was charged with shooting and killing a man outside a Miramichi drinking club. This biography follows Durelle's painful progress through both worlds.
The Fighting Fisherman is a remarkably frank portrait of a complex man and a punishing sport.
Durelle emerges in this book as a man of contradictions. His lifelong nickname was "Doux"--gentle--but he mastered a spectacularly brutal profession. Accounts of his fighting career reveal a man of incredible toughness and audacity: in 1952 he fought Olympic gold medalist Floyd Patterson with a broken hand. His life outside the ring was equally audacious: in 1977 he was charged with shooting and killing a man outside a Miramichi drinking club. This biography follows Durelle's painful progress through both worlds.
The Fighting Fisherman is a remarkably frank portrait of a complex man and a punishing sport.
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From the Author:
The cover of this edition of my book is a complete mess. The title should be THE FIGHTING FISHERMAN: The Life of Yvon Durelle, authored by RAYMOND FRASER (not "Yvon Durelle with Ray Fraser). The hardcover and a later paperback editions have it right. This particular edition which was designed by an idiot is fortunately now out of print. I don't recommend anyone buy it used.
About the Author:
RAYMOND FRASER was born in Chatham, New Brunswick. A prolific writer, his books include The Bannonbridge Musicians (1978), Rum River (1997), In Another Life (2009), and The Madness of Youth (2011).
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- PublisherGoodread Biography
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0887801145
- ISBN 13 9780887801143
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages282
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The Fighting Fisherman: Yvon Durelle
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Marker to top edge. Stamp to front end page. Wear to head of spine. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.4. Seller Inventory # 1547234170
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. B/W Photographs (illustrator). First Thus. Yvon is pictured with his wife, Therese, after page 66 of this 282 page biography. Complete fight card after page 277. Read more about : Harry Poulton, IBC, Newcastle, British Empire title, Doux, Hardwood Road, home brew, Yolande Pompey, Albin Poirier, roadwork,sparring partner, and Richibucto. Three sections of b/w photographs. Cond : Paper wrapper is red with white lettering. Cover photo of Yvon is from c.1954. Colours bright. No names. Tight in binding. Light general wear. Excellent reading copy. QUote (p. 129) : " One thing you can't help thinking : with Anthony the favorite and on his home territory, if the fight had really been a draw Durelle would have lost. Probably nothing short of a knockout could have won it for him. With the Moore fight coming up ._._._. . " Size: 12mo. Seller Inventory # 015456
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The Fighting Fisherman; The Life of Yvon Durelle
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. B & W Photos (illustrator). Original red mass market paperback with black and white photo of the subject on the cover, and white and yellow lettering. This is the story of a man from a small New Brunswick fishing village who made it big in the professional boxing world! Appendix of records from 1947 to 1963. 282 pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 014366
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Good. The Fighting Fisherman. Goodread Biographies, 1981. Paperback. Condition: Good+. Signed by author. "Yvon Durelle fought from the tiny Acadian hamlet of Baie Ste. Anne to within a heartbeat of being light-heavyweight boxing champion of the world. Durelle emerges in this book as a man of contradictions. His lifelong nickname was "Doux"--gentle--but he mastered a spectacularly brutal profession. Accounts of his fighting career reveal a man of incredible toughness and audacity: in 1952 he fought Olympic gold medalist Floyd Patterson with a broken hand. His life outside the ring was equally audacious: in 1977 he was charged with shooting and killing a man outside a Miramichi drinking club. This biography follows Durelle's painful progress through both worlds. "The Fighting Fisherman" is a remarkably frank portrait of a complex man and a punishing sport." Marks on cover, handling wear, crease to spine and cover. Text clean and binding tight. Seller Inventory # 000643
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