John Harding, Author Robson Books $35 (0p) ISBN 978-0-86051-846-4
Like certain vintage wines, books about British boxing may not be exportable to the U.S., which holds pugilism in the U.K. in about the same esteem as Britons do American soccer. Thus it seems likely that Harding, who scored several years ago with...
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John Harding, Author . Harper Perennial $14.95 (489p) ISBN 978-0-06-113218-6
Set on a fictional South Pacific island inhabited by black bantam pigs and a clan of nearly-naked eccentrics, this excessively zany British import has a raging conscience and a muted heart. Managua, a one-legged tribesman (most of his fellow...
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John Harding, Author Robson Books $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-86051-441-1
Born Judah Bergman in the poverty-rife Whitechapel section of London's East End in 1909, Berg used the appellation ``Kid'' when he started boxing, and it was apt, since he was only 14. A dynamo both in and out of the ring, he had a furious energy...
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