Raging Bull II: Continuing the Story of Jake La Motta.

LA MOTTA, Jake; Chris Anderson and Sharon McGehee.

$375.00

Item Number: 146258

Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1986.

First edition of the sequel to Raging Bull. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “My friend Lee Raging Bull Jake LaMotta.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tim Gaydos.

Jake La Motta lived his life by a simple rule: “Hit ‘em first, and hit ‘em hard.” That motto helped him survive his hellish youth in the Bronx, and it brought him to the apex of boxing, as the Middle Weight Champion of the World—a title for which he sacrificed everything, and whose glories could not endure. Brooding, violent, and cruel, the Bronx Bull was a complex figure, whose courage was immortalized in the film “Raging Bull,” but whose story did not end there. This is the continuation of La Motta’s story, and it hits with all the power of a sucker punch. Brought back into the limelight by “Raging Bull,” La Motta once again stared down tragedy. As he has done his whole life, the Bronx Bull refused to go down.