Mike Tyson is the former undisputed heavyweight
champion of the world, and the first boxer to ever hold the three
biggest belts in prizefighting—the WBC, WBA, and IBF world
heavyweight titles—simultaneously. Tyson’s enduring appeal has
launched him into a career in entertainment: he was a standout in
the blockbuster films The Hangover and The Hangover 2,
and recently he has earned tremendous acclaim for his one-man
show Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth. Tyson has launched a
clothing company (Mike Tyson Collection) and Tyrrhanic Productions,
which currently has several film projects in development. In 2011
Tyson was inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame. He lives in Las
Vegas with his wife, Kiki, and their children.
Larry “Ratso” Sloman is best known as Howard Stern’s
collaborator on Private Parts and Miss America. Sloman’s recent
collaborations include The Secret Life of Houdini, with magic
theorist William Kalush; Mysterious Stranger with magician David
Blaine; and Scar Tissue; the memoir of Red Hot Chili Peppers lead
singer Anthony Kiedis. All three books were New York Times
bestsellers.
“A masterpiece … grimly tragic on one page, laugh-out-loud funny on
the next, and unrelentingly vulgar and foul-mouthed. Reading
Tyson's memoir is like watching a Charles Dickens street urchin
grow up to join Hunter S. Thompson on a narcotics-filled road trip
— with the ensuing antics captured on video by assorted paparazzi.”
–Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times
“Undisputed Truth is raw, powerful and disturbing—a head-spinning
take on Mr. Tyson's life…Unlike other sports memoirists, he doesn't
pull punches, offering up slashing comments on people who were once
close to him. His narrative reminds us of just how far he has come
from his rough beginnings, and, in a way, how close he remains to
them. He had a punch like a thunderbolt from Zeus, but there have
been a lot of big bangers in boxing; Mike Tyson's came with a
pulsating story line like few others.” --Gordon Marino, Wall Street
Journal
“Parts of [Undisputed Truth] read like a real-life Tarantino movie.
Parts read like a Tom Wolfe-ian tour of wildly divergent worlds:
from the slums of Brooklyn to the high life in Las Vegas to the
isolation of prison…. Mr. Tyson’s idiosyncratic voice comes through
clearly on the page here — not just his mix of profane street talk
and 12-step recovery language, cinematic descriptions of individual
fights and philosophical musings, but also his biting humor and
fondness for literary and historical references that run the gamut
from Alexandre Dumas to Tolstoy to Lenin to Tennessee Williams…. A
genuine effort by a troubled soul to gain some understanding of the
long, strange journey that has been his life.” –Michiko Kakutani,
The New York Times
“A hefty autobiography that might be the most soul baring book of
its genre ever written … a fascinating look into a life that up
until now had already been well chronicled … It’s raw and profane …
but it is also quite funny.”—Associated Press
“Undisputed Truth, which is, without a doubt, one of the grittiest
and most harrowing memoirs I’ve ever read.” –Flavorwire
“Most readers are familiar with [Tyson’s] tumultuous life and
career—the bizarre behavior in the ring, the sordid behavior out of
it—but what’s most surprising about the book is the introspection
and self-awareness displayed … it’s raw and profane but also smart
and witty … A fascinating and frequently surprising
autobiography.”—Booklist
“Undisputed Truth, is the American dream writ large in
raw detail: think Citizen Kane scripted by the writing team of The
Wire…. [it] has a great American novel feel to it… Tyson could
easily be a Tom Wolfe or Norman Mailer creation.” –Austin Collings,
New Statesman
“[A] lively mixture of a memoir.” –Joyce Carol Oates, New York
Review of Books
“Tyson was ever practised at delivering the early killer blow; and
so it is with this gripping and indecently enthralling
autobiography….Tyson always had a way with words – although much of
the credit for this book must go to his ghostwriter Larry “Ratso”
Sloman, who not only makes Tyson’s life read like an Elmore Leonard
thriller, but gifts him with considerable self-awareness and a
memorably pithy turn of phrase….recounted in gripping,
punch-by-punch detail in prose pungent with the reek of blood,
sweat and petroleum jelly.” –Mick Brown, The Telegraph (UK)
“Thrilling…addictive…Sloman brings Tyson's voice springing off the
page with its often hilarious combo of street and shrink, pimp
profanity and the ‘prisony pseudo-intellectual modern mack rap’ of
the autodidact.” –Geoff Dyer, The Guardian (UK)
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