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Tom King, un boxeur australien sur le déclin se prépare pour un combat important contre l'étoile montante de la boxe, un jeune homme nommé Sandel. Mais Tom sait qu'il ne s'est pas bien préparé pour ce match. Il n'a pas pu manger à sa faim, ni s'entraîner autant qu'il aurait dû. Il rêve d'un bon bifteck pour lui donner de l'énergie, mais l'argent manque dans son foyer. Quand il était jeune, il se battait pour la gloire et le public hurlait son nom. Désormais, il se bat pour manger à sa faim. Le combat de King contre Sandel, c'est celui de la sagesse et de l'expérience contre la vitalité de la jeunesse.

You Know Me, Al is a classic of baseball, the game and the community. Jack Keefe, one of literature's great characters, is talented, brash, and conceited. Self-assured and imperceptive, impervious to both advice and sarcasm, Keefe rises to the heights, but his inability to learn makes for his undoing. Through a series of letters from this bush-league pitcher to his not-quite-anonymous friend Al, Lardner maintains a balance between the funny and the moving, the pathetic and the glorious.

Las mejores plumas de nuestra literatura se enfundaron en alguna ocasión los guantes de cuero rojo para acercarse al mundo de narices rotas, toallas a punto de caer, orgullos fracturados, amaños a deshora, y besos a la única que se deja querer: la lona. Los hemos reunido para así trazar un...

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.

In this emotional story of parental love, a single mother of a teenage baseball player who exhibits the batting eye of a professional athlete, tries to shield and protect her son from the world of over-zealous scouts, hard-nosed coaches, and money-hungry agents. Guided by his mother's firm and...