Download or read book Cockfighter written by Charles Ray Willeford and published by Picturebox, Incorporated. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered to be Charles Willeford's masterpiece, Cockfighter is a brutal, if beautiful, fiction of the American South, loosely modelled on Homer's Odyssey. Frank Mansfield is the titular cockfighter - a silent and fiercely contrary man whose obsession with winning costs him almost everything. Mansfield haunts the cockpits, bars and roads of the rural South in the early 1960s, adrift but always capable of nearly anything. First published in complete form in 1972 and adapted into the infamous Monte Hellman film in 1974, it is now back in print after 20 years.