Fat City
Format: paperback
ISBN:
0747409404
Publish date: 1991
Publisher: Cardinal
Pages no: 183
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...