Summary
Under the glittering chandeliers of a fraternity house that smells of pomade and privilege, we first glimpse our blue-blooded protagonist: cuff-links aglint, future scripted by ancestral ledgers, engaged to a porcelain heiress whose laughter shivers like crystal. Destiny, however, is a capricious bookmaker; overnight the Market’s roulette wheel strips his patrician father to the silk piping of his waistcoat. The gilded son must now trade champagne flutes for boxing gloves, descending into a haze of resinous sawdust where every punch is a margin call on masculinity itself. Along the blood-veined arc of his metamorphosis he encounters a pugilistic maestro who spouts Seneca between body shots, a rag-and-bone sparring partner whose cauliflower ear blooms like a grotesque orchid, and a torch-singing vamp whose kohl-rimmed gaze promises annihilation sweeter than any TKO. The narrative knuckles forward—round after round of fractured ribs, tabloid ink, and nocturnal letters scented with magnolia—until the final bell clangs inside a Madison Square Garden roaring like surf. There, bruise-lipped and purse-poor, he discovers that identity is not inheritance but the sweat-beaded moment when you choose to stay standing.
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A college man, engaged to a society girl, is compelled to enter the prize ring when his father's finances are swept away in Wall Street.
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