The Fighting Fisherman: The Life of Yvon Durelle - Hardcover

Fraser, Raymond

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9780385158633: The Fighting Fisherman: The Life of Yvon Durelle

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385158637 ISBN 13: 9780385158633

Publisher: Doubleday Canada, 1995

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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.

This edition replaces the Goodread edition of this title, ISBN 0-8878-0114-5.

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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 novelist, poet and editor, his books include The Bannonbridge Musicians (1978) and Rum River (1997).

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