Also called "The Great White Hope" and set in New York, this is a satirical novel, but not a "ha!ha!" comical one.
Finished reading this on Ana's 12th birthday. Happy birthday Ana!
Quotes:
John Bannister smiled. He had a wintry smile, a sort of muscular affection of the mouth, to which his eyes contributed nothing.
It was a significant sign of his changed attitude towards his profession that he was not drawing Steve as a figure in an allegorical picture or as "Apollo" or "The Toiler," but simply as a well-developed young man who had had the good sense to support his nether garments with Middleton's Undeniable Suspenders.
It has been well said that it is better for a third party to quarrel with a buzz-saw than to interfere between husband and wife
He realized with the abruptness which comes to a man who stands alone with nature in the small hours that he was very sleepy.
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