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The Tao of Bruce Lee
  • Published: 4 February 2000
  • ISBN: 9780099779513
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $25.00
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The Tao of Bruce Lee



In this companion volume to the critically acclaimed bestseller The Tao of Muhammad Ali, Miller turns to another iconic figure and seminal influence - film star and martial arts legend, Bruce Lee.

Just weeks after completing Enter the Dragon, his first vehicle for a worldwide audience, Bruce Lee - the self-proclaimed world's fittest man - died mysteriously at the age of thirty-two. The film has since grossed over $500 million, making it one of the most profitable in the history of cinema, and Lee has acquired almost mythic status.

Lee's was a flawed, complex yet singular talent. He revolutionized the martial arts and forever changed action movie-making. As in The Tao of Muhammad Ali, Davis Miller brilliantly combines biography - the fullest, most unflinching and revelatory to date - with his own coming-of-age autobiography. The result is a unique and compelling book.

  • Published: 4 February 2000
  • ISBN: 9780099779513
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $25.00
Categories:

About the author

Davis Miller

Davis Miller is the author of The Tao of Muhammad Ali and The Tao of Bruce Lee. His writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, Men's Journal, Esquire, Sport magazine, Sports Illustrated, and numerous other periodicals. His first published story, 'My Dinner with Ali' was voted by the Sunday Magazine Editors Association to be the best essay published in a newspaper magazine in the US in 1989.

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Praise for The Tao of Bruce Lee

This fantastic second book by Miller runs deeper than an account of the author growing up as a 'karate kid' in the early 1970s. It is equally a study of the nature and role of the hero in popular culture, a poignant and unusual coming-of-age story, and an informative biography of Bruce Lee

Ted Leventhal, Booklist

Davis Miller continues to invent a powerful new form of writing

Richard Martyn, Toronto Star

After telling his own story, Miller moves to Lee's saga, gently debunking many myths

Library Journal

A martial arts Nick Hornby, Miller is illuminating about the ability to transform oneself no matter what the circumstances

The Times

Often poignant, always potent . . . Miller has created a place where New Journalism comfortably collides with traditional reporting and timeless storytelling

Winston-Salem Journal

Easygoing but unflippant, formless yet rigorous. Solid reporting and sumptuous storytelling. Miller's is an American voice attractive to Brits

Tim Birch, The Guardian

A really interesting, beautifully written book with amazingly random but cool distinctions like: Lee was a Confucian in a Taoist's clothing

Lee Smith, Slate Magazine

I loved Davis Miller's The Tao of Bruce Lee, a book about hero worship

Tony Parsons, author Man and Boy, Daily Mail