01659cam a2200313 i 4500 340559864 TxAuBib 20180307120000.0 150522s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015019900 9781590178928 14.95 1590178920 14.95 eng rda TxAuBib rda Gardner, Leonard. Fat city [BOOK] / Leonard Gardner ; introduction by Denis Johnson. New York : New York Review Books, [2015] viii, 191 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier New York review books classics 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. 20180307. Boxers (Sports) Fiction. Young men Fiction. Stockton (Calif) Fiction. Sports stories. New York review books classics.