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The domino diaries : my decade boxing with Olympic champions and chasing Hemingway's ghost in the last days of Castro's Cuba
- Title
- The domino diaries : my decade boxing with Olympic champions and chasing Hemingway's ghost in the last days of Castro's Cuba / Brin-Jonathan Butler.
- Author
- Butler, Brin-Jonathan
- Publication
- New York : Picador, [2015]
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 15-3195 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 292 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "A powerful and lively work of immersive journalism, Brin-Jonathan Butler's story of his time chasing the American dream through Cuba Whether he's hustling his way into Mike Tyson's mansion for an interview, betting his life savings on a boxing match, becoming romantically entangled with one of Fidel Castro's granddaughters, or simply manufacturing press credentials to go where he wants-Brin-Jonathan Butler has always been the "act first, ask permission later" kind of journalist. This book is the culmination of Butler's decade spent in the trenches of Havana, trying to understand a culture perplexing to Westerners: one whose elite athletes regularly forgo multimillion-dollar opportunities to stay in Cuba and box for their country, while living in penury. Butler's fascination with this distinctly Cuban idealism sets him off on a remarkable journey, training with, befriending, and interviewing the champion boxers that Cuba seems to produce more than any other country. In the process, though, Butler gets to know the landscape of the exhilaratingly warm Cuban culture-and starts to question where he feels most at home. In the tradition of Michael Lewis and John Jeremiah Sullivan, Butler is a keen and humane storyteller, and the perfect guide for this riotous tour through the streets of Havana"--
- Subjects
- Call Number
- JFD 15-3195
- ISBN
- 9781250043702 (hardback)
- 1250043700 (hardback)
- 9781250043719 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015012698
- OCLC
- 886486080
- Author
- Butler, Brin-Jonathan, author.
- Title
- The domino diaries : my decade boxing with Olympic champions and chasing Hemingway's ghost in the last days of Castro's Cuba / Brin-Jonathan Butler.
- Publisher
- New York : Picador, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
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- Research Call Number
- JFD 15-3195