Fat City - Leonard Gardner (Paperback, 1972)

Description: Good condition (see pictures). 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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Format: Paperback

Title: Fat City

Topic: Contemporary

Era: 20th Century

Language: English

Publication Year: 1972

Book Title: Fat City

Author: Leonard Gardner

Narrative Type: Fiction

Publisher: Dell

Genre: Modern & Contemporary

Cultural Region: American Literature

Type: Novel