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Raging Bull: My Story
By Jake LaMotta, Peter
Savage and Joseph Carter.
Introduction by Nick
Tosches.
Filmed as Raging Bull
(1980), directed by Martin Scorsese.
First published 1970.
Published by Da Capo
Press.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0306808080
ISBN-13: 978-0306808081
Description:
Meet Jake LaMotta: thief, rapist, killer. Raised
in the Bronx slums, he fought on the streets, got sent to reform school, and
served time in prison. Trusting no one, slugging everyone, he beat his wife,
his best friends, even the mobsters who kept the title just out of reach. But
the same forces that made him a criminal – fear, rage, jealousy, self-hate,
guilt – combined with his drive and intelligence to make him a winner in the
ring. At age twenty-seven, after eight years of fighting, he became
Middleweight Champion of the World, a hero to thousands. Then, at the peak of
success, he fell apart and began a swift, harrowing descent into nightmare. Raging
Bull, the Bronx Bull's brutally candid memoir, tells it all – fights,
jails, sex, money – surpassing, in hard-hitting prose, even the movie that
immortalized it.
