Fat City by Gardner, Leonard [Paperback]

Description: 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 ring--the retired boxer Billy Tully and the newcomer Ernie Munger--their brief bout sets into motion their hidden fates, initiating young Munger into the company of men and luring Tully back into training. In a dispassionate and composed voice, Leonard Gardner narrates their swings of fortune, and the stubborn optimism of their manager, Ruben Luna, as he watches the most promising boys one by one succumb to some undefined weakness; still, "There was always someone who wanted to fight."

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EAN: 9781590178928

UPC: 9781590178928

ISBN: 9781590178928

MPN: N/A

Book Title: Fat City

Number of Pages: 200 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.

Publication Year: 2015

Item Height: 0.4 in

Topic: Coming of Age, Literary, Sports, Noir

Genre: Fiction

Item Weight: 7.2 Oz

Item Length: 8 in

Author: Leonard Gardner

Item Width: 5 in

Format: Trade Paperback