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100 1  Gardner, Leonard,|eauthor. 
245 10 Fat city /|cLeonard Gardner ; introduction by Denis 
       Johnson. 
264  1 New York :|bNew York Review Books,|c[2015] 
300    viii, 191 pages ;|c21 cm. 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
520    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 ringthe retired 
       boxer Billy Tully and the newcomer Ernie Mungertheir 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, zThere was always someone who wanted to 
       fight.y 
650  0 Boxers (Sports)|vFiction. 
650  0 Young men|vFiction. 
651  0 Stockton (Calif.)|vFiction. 
655  7 Bildungsromans.|2gsafd 
830  0 New York Review Books classics.