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descriptions of individual fights and philosophical musings, but also his biting humor and fondness for literary and historical references that run the gamut from Alexandre Dumas to Tolstoy to Lenin to Tennessee Williams….
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….
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 read like a real-life Tarantino movie. 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. Tyson''s life…Unlike other sports memoirists, he doesn''t pull punches, offering up slashing comments on people who were once close to him. 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. Reading Tyson''s memoir is like watching a Charles Dickens street urchin grow up to join Hunter S. Olaf Boxing Club with Associate Professor of English Carlos Gallego.Praise for UNDISPUTED TRUTH "A masterpiece … grimly tragic on one page, laugh-out-loud funny on the next, and unrelentingly vulgar and foul-mouthed. In addition to his teaching and writing, Marino serves as curator of the Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library and co-coaches the St. 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.”Īfter walking the reader through Tyson’s telling of his life, Marino concludes that “to judge by the pain and implicit self-reproach in Undisputed Truth, the man lost to most often was himself.” “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. “Unlike other sports memoirists, he doesn’t pull punches, offering up slashing comments on people who were once close to him,” Marino writes. Tyson’s life that captures his peculiar, sometimes ranting voice,” Marino goes on to paint a realistic picture of Tyson’s story touching on both its triumphs and its pitfalls. Olaf College Professor of Philosophy Gordon Marino, a nationally recognized sports journalist, recently reviewed Mike Tyson’s new memoir for the Wall Street Journal.Ĭalling the book, titled Undisputed Truth, “raw, powerful and disturbing - a head-spinning take on Mr.
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