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 enlarge | Authors: Kawakami, Tim Kawakami
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 1678203
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 0740705806
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.83092
UPC: 050837190153
EAN: 9780740705809
ASIN: 0740705806
Publication Date: April 15, 2000
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Excellent study of a uniquely skilled and troubled boxer August 18, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thoroughly enjoyed the author's piercing and technically proficient story about someone he clearly cared for but was bluntly honest about the less than perfect way Oscar conducted himself. As a boxing fan, I could not ask for a more detailed account of a "superstar". His triumphs and tribulations . This book is certainly worth your time.
 Terrific April 10, 1999
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
As a boxing fan, it is impossible not to embrace "Golden Boy.'' The author, Tim Kawakami, obviously knows his stuff. I found myself unable to put down the book because Kawakami wrote like a novelist. He did not merely fill up pages with facts and figures and methodical recounts of De La Hoya's bouts. Nor did he fall into the trap of gushing and heaping praise on a celebrity. Instead, Kawakami went deep, into the heart and soul and mind of a young man, revealing that all that glitters is not necessarily golden. Nonetheless, Kawakami was more than fair throughout. His newspaper training was in evidence by his every attempt to analyze and deal with the facts, while refraining from cheap shots and innuendo when the difficult parts of De La Hoya's life were chronicled. I highly recommend "Golden Boy'' not just for boxing fans, but for anyone who enjoys a captivating story. I think De La Hoya should at least appreciate it, too. Granted, the book does not paint him in an entirely favorable light. But the boxer should feel good that someone made a legitimate effort to portray him in a human light. And after all, isn't that the predicament that faces all of us?
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