Fat City
Fat City is a vivid novel of allegiance and defeat, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes. Stockton, California, is the setting: the Lido Gym, the Hotel Coma, Main Street lunchrooms and dingy bars, days like long twilights in houses...
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Fat City is a vivid novel of allegiance and defeat, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes. Stockton, California, is the setting: the Lido Gym, the Hotel Coma, Main Street lunchrooms and dingy bars, days like long twilights in houses obscured by untrimmed shrubs and black walnut trees. When two men meet in the
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781590178928 (1590178920)
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Pages no: 191
Edition language: English
Boxing is a sport that's had its day, and despite recent movies like 'The Fighter', I'm not sure how its still relevant. Of all the sports fans I know, and when you're not one it seems you run into a fan every time you're waiting in line, I don't know a single person who considers boxing at all. Pro...
A decent book about manhood. The novel tracks three men -- 2 boxers and their manager -- in southern california in the fifties. Ernie is a young, up-and-coming kid discovered by Billy Tully, a 30 year old who gave up the sport two years prior but now must work fruit and vegetable fields to make mone...
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