A memoir by the Academy Award-winning legend and icon Sylvester Stallone, about his unlikely path to stardom and the creation of the greatest underdog story ever told.
Are we reading a self-help guidebook? It feels like it. Occasionally, Stallone’s prose is mawkish and sentimental. But his raw honesty and vulnerability are compelling, and emotionally engaging. He is philosophical and poetic about the loneliness he endured.
