The Art of Boxing

Author Tony Parsons is a boxing enthusiast and spars every week. He takes a journey through the cultural landscape of the 20th and 21st centuries, finding literary and artistic heavyweights including Ernest Hemingway,TS Eliot, Joyce Carol Oates, Picasso, Braque and Manet who shared his passion for the sport. He also reveals how a new generation is discovering that boxing has little to do with violence and everything to do with the search for self-knowledge