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Original Title: The Abysmal Brute
ISBN: 0809501465 (ISBN13: 9780809501465)
Edition Language: English
Characters: Pat Glendon, Sam Stubener, Maud Sangster
Setting: San Francisco, California(United States)
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The Abysmal Brute Paperback | Pages: 72 pages
Rating: 3.73 | 228 Users | 20 Reviews

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Of course I knew Jack London wrote about the North.

And I also knew he had written about the South Seas, and at least one hilarious play, a journal of his own ocean voyage with his wife, a science fiction novella, and many social commentaries disguised as entertaining stories.

But when I was looking for a London piece to add to my Spinner's Wheel reading list and saw this title, I was surprised to see that the subject was the sport of boxing.

Boxing?! Jack London wrote about boxing?! And here I thought I knew all about this author!

A manager receives a letter from an old-time boxer, asking him to come see the young son who the old-timer had trained and knew for certain could knockout anyone at any time. Old Pat Glendon had raised his boy in the wild woods, kept him innocent of nearly everything, but also trained him in his own sport, perhaps hoping to change the hard-luck legacy of his own career.

Old Pat and the manager make a deal, signed a contract, and Young Pat gets taken to San Francisco; with the manager's assurances to Old Pat that the youngster will be completely protected and insulated from the dirty, corrupted underbelly of the sport. Would that be possible in a sport as crooked as boxing was at the time? (On a side note, I wonder how much of what is told about here still goes on today?)

Meanwhile, how will Young Pat deal with his new life's work? Will he ever realize what is going on around him? Or will he remain the almost ridiculously naive country bumpkin who never speaks to reporters, is too shy to talk to women, and at first glance seems to be nothing more than an overgrown country boy with nothing but cotton wool between his ears? Did the nickname the reporters tacked onto him describe him accurately? Was he "The Abysmal Brute", or was he actually much much more?

This 1913 story started swinging in the first chapter and ended with a knockout punch that was slightly unbelievable and yet fit the plot and the character completely. Great stuff, and I think I will go explore London's author pages at Gutenberg and make a list of the other titles where he writes about topics that I don't usually associate with him. I can see now that I still have a lot to learn about one of my favorite authors!

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Title:The Abysmal Brute
Author:Jack London
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Special Edition
Pages:Pages: 72 pages
Published:January 9th 2007 by Wildside Press (first published 1911)
Categories:Fiction. Classics. Literature. American. Sports. Romance. 20th Century

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A clever twist on the more predictable story arc of an ingenue being chewed up and spat out by a cruel sport and an unscrupulous manager. In this story, the innocent country boy is the one who spits out the sport his boxer father trained him up for. Throughout the tale, there is a curious passivity about the hero who just goes along with whatever other people want of him. It is only when he reaches the higher levels of boxing and has to make an actual effort in the ring that he also begins to

More of a novella than a novel, an interesting story of a naive boxer who comes down from Northern California and -- naivete intact -- conquers the boxing world. Along the way he is exploited by agents, etc., but is too trusting to know it. He meets a young female sportswriter who opens his eyes, wins one final glorious match, and leaves for the country. Huck Finn as boxer . . . and it's hard to believe that Malamud didn't read this book before he wrote THE NATURAL.

Since this book was first published in 1911, it was (duh!) a little hard to read. I read this book because it was on a list of 50 Top Romances of 20th Century. I, personally, would disagree with that. I found it to be 95% boxing and ethics and 5% romance. It was boring by any standards, and especially boring by MY standards. If i had to name something i liked, it was merely the challenge of reading a book that is 100 years old. It kind of made me feel like i was in another time. The things i

Of course I knew Jack London wrote about the North.And I also knew he had written about the South Seas, and at least one hilarious play, a journal of his own ocean voyage with his wife, a science fiction novella, and many social commentaries disguised as entertaining stories. But when I was looking for a London piece to add to my Spinner's Wheel reading list and saw this title, I was surprised to see that the subject was the sport of boxing.Boxing?! Jack London wrote about boxing?! And here I

Surprised I liked this. Not usually a Jack London fan. The message of integrity really resonated.

This short story is about a man who was born to fight. He is such a good fighter that his agent has to agree with him beforehand how long each fight will last so that they're not one hit knockouts. It's not the most interesting story by Jack London but it's a quick read and has a good idea behind it.

Jack London was an American novelist, journalist, social-activist and short-story writer whose works deal romantically with elemental struggles for survival. At his peak, he was the highest paid and the most popular of all living writers. Because of early financial difficulties, he was largely self educated past grammar school.London drew heavily on his life experiences in his writing. He spent