In My Father's Fighter, Vincent Rosen, a 35-year-old Manhattan English teacher, inherits the management of a prizefighter from his father. The fighter is Mickey Davis, a white light-heavyweight contender with a doomed air, a reputation for dirty fighting, and plenty of neuroses and sexual obsessions. With his Ivy League education and bookish nature, Vincent does not share his father's passion for boxing, yet is slowly seduced by the fighting world. This is a comic tale that moves from the privileged Upper East Side to the down-and-out bars of Las Vegas.
"From the author of the well-received Corner Men: Great Boxing Trainers comes a light-footed tale about surviving in the gritty world of boxing. . . . Fried takes a refreshingly comical approach, giving visceral descriptions of combat in the ring but managing to avoid cliché. The ending could use a little more punch, but Fried's clever, well-developed characters help make this book a literary knoc
