中文简介：

这部作品向穆罕默德·阿里（Muhammad Ali）和乔治·福尔曼（George Foreman）1974年在扎伊尔金沙萨举行的拳击比赛致敬，结合了诺曼·梅勒（Norman Mailer）的经典评论《战斗》的精华与尼尔·雷佛（Neil Leifer）和霍华德·L·宾厄姆（Howard L. Bingham）拍摄的彩色和黑白照片。

首次出版时为签名收藏限量版，现在为无限量版

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诺曼·梅勒（Norman Mailer）对穆罕默德·阿里（Muhammad Ali）和乔治·福尔曼（George Foreman）的激烈战斗的亲密记录

1974年10月30日，在扎伊尔的金沙萨，非洲的中心城市，两位拳击手每人得到500万美元的报酬，在一场史诗般的比赛中相互对峙。一位是穆罕默德·阿里，他发誓要夺回他所失去的**头衔。另一位是乔治·福尔曼，他和阿里一样沉默寡言，双手插在口袋里，“就像猎人把步枪放回了天鹅绒盒子里”。

观察他们的是诺曼·梅勒，他对这场巨大的战斗的佯攻和策略的把握，以及对其深层象征意义的敏感，让他在1975年出版的《战斗》一书成为体育写作的杰作。无论是分析拳手的动作、解读他们的性格，还是权衡他们对非洲和美国灵魂的竞争要求，梅勒都是一位具有无与伦比的敏锐性的评论员，而且是少数几个有胆量陪伴阿里在深夜的灌木丛中奔跑的人之一。通过《战斗》，他恢复了被玷污的英雄主义概念的耀眼光芒，并确立了自己作为**的地位。

在原版出版40多年后，本版《战斗》由梅勒学者J.迈克尔·列侬（J.Michael Lennon）进行了介绍和删节，并首次采用了由尼尔·雷佛（Neil Leifer）和霍华德·L·宾厄姆（Howard L. Bingham）这两位拍摄了阿里和福尔曼在拳击场和私人场合的主要摄影作品进行插图。尼尔·雷佛被广泛认为是他那一代人中最伟大的体育摄影师，他充满活力的彩色报道在拳击场边占据了主导地位，它也生动见证了选手们、他们的阵营以及他们备受争议的东道主扎伊尔总统蒙博托·塞塞·塞科（Mobutu Sese Seko）之间的盛况、纯粹的身体力量和深刻的心理互动。同时，在幕后，霍华德·L·宾厄姆是阿里的忠实伙伴，记录了他的一举一动，从他在扎伊尔下飞机的那一刻起，他的日常训练制度，一直到他准备与福尔曼一决高下时在更衣室的紧张气氛。

再加上其他摄影记者提供的图片、梅勒的原始手稿页复制品，以及围绕“丛林大乱斗”的媒体狂热的其他视觉文件，本书是对“**”的华丽致敬，生动记录了体育史上最史诗般的、令人兴奋的事件之一。

作者

诺曼·梅勒（Norman Mailer，1923-2007）是20世纪最伟大和最有影响力的作家之一，也是美国最知名和最有争议的文学家之一。他是十几部小说和20部非虚构作品的畅销作者，他还写过舞台剧、电影剧本、电视迷你剧、数百篇散文、两本诗集和一本短篇小说集。他曾两次获得普利策奖，住在纽约的布鲁克林和马萨诸塞州的普罗旺斯镇。

摄影师

土生土长的纽约人尼尔·雷佛（Neil Leifer）十几岁时就开始拍摄体育赛事。他的160多张照片出现在《体育画报》的封面上，40多张照片登上了《时代》的封面。他已经出版了17本书，并且是TASCHEN向穆罕默德·阿里致敬的《GOAT-历史**》和诺曼·梅勒的《战斗》插图版中的两位主要摄影师之一。

霍华德·L·宾厄姆（Howard L. Bingham，1939-2016）**次见到穆罕默德·阿里时，他叫做卡西乌斯·克莱，是在1962年洛杉矶的一次新闻发布会上。一年后，阿里封他为“私人摄影师”，开启了他一生的友谊和超过一百万张拳王在拳击场内外的照片。宾厄姆还拍摄了大量1960年代城市骚乱的照片，以及其他公众人物的肖像，如小亚当·克莱顿·鲍威尔（Adam Clayton Powell Jr.）、马尔科姆·X（Malcolm X）和杰拉尔德·福特总统（Gerald Ford）。他的作品被刊登在《生活》、《时代》、《新闻周刊》、《体育画报》和《乌木》等杂志上。

撰稿人

J.迈克尔·列侬（J. Michael Lennon）是威尔克斯大学英语系的名誉教授，也是已故诺曼·梅勒的档案管理员和授权传记作者。他是授权传记《诺曼·梅勒：双重生活》的作者和《诺曼·梅勒书信选》的编辑。

梅勒/雷佛/宾厄姆：战斗

诺曼·梅勒，尼尔·雷佛, 霍华德·L·宾厄姆， J·迈克尔·列侬

精装，28 x 33.8厘米，2.72公斤，260页

ISBN 978-3-8365-9149-2

语言版本：英语

英文简介：

This dazzling tribute to Muhammad Ali and George Foreman's 1974 boxing match in Kinshasa, Zaire, brings together the best of Norman Mailer's classic commentary The Fight with color and black-and-white photographs from the two men who captured Ali like no one else: Neil Leifer and Howard L. Bingham.

First published as a signed Collector's Edition, now available in an unlimited edition

A Meeting of Giants

Mailer's intimate record of Muhammad Ali and George Foreman's titanic battle

On October 30, 1974, in Kinshasa, Zaire, at the virtual center of Africa, two boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to confront each other in an epic match. One was Muhammad Ali, who vowed to reclaim the championship he had lost. The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble and who kept his hands in his pockets “the way a hunter lays his rifle back into its velvet case.”

Observing them both was Norman Mailer, whose grasp of the titanic battle's feints and stratagems—and sensitivity to their deeper symbolism—made his 1975 book The Fight a masterpiece of sportswriting. Whether analyzing the fighters' moves, interpreting their characters, or weighing their competing claims on the African and American souls, Mailer was a commentator of unparalleled acumen—and surely one of the few intrepid enough to accompany Ali on a late-night run through the bush. Through The Fight he restores our tarnished notions of heroism to a blinding gleam, and establishes himself as a champion in his own right.

Over four decades after its original publication, this edition of The Fight has been introduced and abridged by Mailer scholar J. Michael Lennon and illustrated for the first time with principal photography by the two men who captured Ali and Foreman in the ring and in private like no one else: Neil Leifer and Howard L. Bingham. Widely considered to be the greatest sports photographer of his generation, Neil Leifer's vibrant color coverage dominates from ringside. It also serves as a living testimony to the pageantry, sheer physical power, and deep psychological interplay of the fighters, their camps, and their controversial host, Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko. Behind the scenes, meanwhile, Howard Bingham was Ali's constant companion, documenting his every move from the moment he stepped off the plane in Zaire, his daily training regime, right through to the dressing room tension as he prepared to face Foreman once and for all.

Together with pictures from other photojournalists, reproductions of Mailer's original manuscript pages, and additional visual documentation of the media frenzy surrounding the “Rumble in the Jungle,” the result is a dazzling tribute to The Champ and a vivid document of one of the most epic, adrenaline-laced events in sporting history.

The author

Norman Mailer (1923–2007) was one of the 20th century's greatest and most influential writers, as well as one of America's most renowned and controversial literary figures. The best-selling author of a dozen novels and 20 works of nonfiction, he also wrote stage plays, screenplays, television miniseries, hundreds of essays, two books of poetry, and a collection of short stories. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he lived in Brooklyn, New York, and Provincetown, Massachusetts.

The photographers

Native New Yorker Neil Leifer began photographing sports events as a teenager. Over 160 of his pictures have appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated and over 40 of his photographs have graced the cover of Time. He has published 17 books, and was one of two principal photographers in TASCHEN's tribute to Muhammad Ali, GOAT—Greatest Of All Time, and the illustrated edition of Norman Mailer's The Fight.

Howard L. Bingham (1939–2016) first met Muhammad Ali—then Cassius Clay—at a press appearance in Los Angeles in 1962. A year later, Ali knighted him his “personal photographer,” inaugurating a lifelong friendship and over a million photographs of The Champ both in and outside of the ring. Bingham also shot a significant portfolio of 1960s urban riots as well as portraits of other public figures as disparate as Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Malcolm X, and President Gerald Ford. His work was featured in magazines including Life, Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and Ebony.

The contributing author

J. Michael Lennon is Emeritus Professor of English at Wilkes University and the late Norman Mailer's archivist and authorized biographer. He is the author of the authorized biography Norman Mailer: A Double Life and editor of Selected Letters of Norman Mailer.

Norman Mailer. Neil Leifer. Howard L. Bingham. The Fight

Norman Mailer, Neil Leifer, Howard L. Bingham, J. Michael Lennon

Hardcover, 28 x 33.8 cm, 2.72 kg, 260 pages

ISBN 978-3-8365-9149-2

Edition: English