Somebody Up There Likes Me: My Life So Far

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Summary: Dante's Inferno With Boxing Gloves & Cigarettes
Review: Dante's Inferno With Boxing Gloves & Cigarettes

Somebody Up There Likes Me - well someone down here loves ya Rock!

This is a great book - VERY hard to find I had to buy my copy off eBay.

This is the story of Rocky Graziano - from his birth to his retirement from boxing. Rocky has had one of the hardest and troubled lives of anyone I've ever read about. It is a miracle that things turned out as they did.

The hell that was Rocky's childhood and life - this was like reading Dantes Inferno - well - if Dante was smacked around by his father, the cops and thugs and if Dante had a right hand made of concrete...

Astounding, fantastic, heart wrenching - I could not put this book down. I could not believe the hardships and hell that Graziano had to endure and he came out the other side an incredible man.

You can feel the honesty and sincerity on every page. It's a great visit to a time, language, custom and society that seems so foreign to today, but yet similar too.

Great for the biography fan, the boxing fan and history fan.

It's a great book - find it - buy it - read it ya bum!