Karate is a Thing of the Spirit

by Harry Crews

Book Overview

Harry Crews - Karate is a Thing of the Spirit. Clean pages This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 068802372X
• ISBN13: 9780688023720
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Quill
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Karate is a thing of the Spirit

Karate is a thing of the Spirit was a good read. The Author Harry Crews obviously had a limited understanding of Karate but still captured the essence and deadly effectiveness of the discipline that is practiced in the true way. Along with the internal view of Karate, Crews told a great story of coming of age in a realistic manner. Not every 19 year old stay with mom and pop and has a nice home life. Some decide to adventure out and find themselves and in this case someone else. I read this book when I was 16 years old and I never forgot the title or the Author. I decided about a year ago to re-read it and see if it was really that good. It was and I am sure I understand the thrust of the message better now at 48 years of age than when I was 16. I plan to read more of Crews work and I recommend this book to martial artist and non martial artist alike. Yours in Tao, Lee Peacock

Really good

The heroine of this novel is a beauty pageant regular who practices karate by smashing her knuckles against a wooden board in a dried-out Florida swimming pool. She is perhaps the least dysfunctional person in the book. Watching Crew's characters abuse themselves and their counterparts is a privilege.