{"product_id":"9781462842223","title":"Blues Song For A Fighter: A Three-Act Drama","description":"Sonny Liston\"\" -- these words pictured menace and boxing ring beatings in Americans' minds in the 1960s.  Was the \"\"Big Ugly Bear,\"\" as a youthful Muhammad Ali called him, as mean and antisocial as he seemed? Or was he a man -- hampered by illiteracy -- misunderstood?  \"\"Blues Song for a Fighter\"\" reveals the real Sonny Liston: witty, hopeful, vengeful, loving children and his wife, determined, humorous, yet -- when drunk -- lascivious, crude, and violent.  J.J. Parker, author of the acclaimed \"\"Tink Wilson,\"\" has penned a stage play version of Liston's tempestuous, ill-fated existence ... a vital sunbeam whose starting and ending points no one ever knew.   Though a former thug paroled from prison ( he did time for armed robbery), Sonny never was paroled from his fate: to uneasily ride a personal Night Train to (and from) nowhere, to be divorced from, yet part of, the human race.  This book offers a three-act play depicting the drama of Sonny Liston's life, the \"\"blues song for a fighter\"\" that he correctly predicted some day would be written, read, and understood.  Settle into your ringside seat ... the bell for Round One is about to clang....","brand":"Xlibris US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124714193136,"sku":"9781462842223","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781462842223_p0.jpg?v=1763679109","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781462842223","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}