Item in very good condition and ready to ship - Guaranteed to play!!. By Leonard Gardner. Share this book. 7. Be the first to ask a question about Fat City. Inaction is its own kind of action in the face of such a pervasive and complicated social issue. I think I would have liked a list of the studies Karen cited, at the very least... We kind of have to take her word for it that her assertions are based on solid evidence. Condition: Very Good. Leonard, like Johnson, illuminates the lives of the under-privileged with empathy without getting sentimental.

A real page-turner, I couldn't put it down! After reading. The two men are encouraged by the ministrations of their manager, Ruben Luna, who believes in “the eventual perfection of every promising move.”. Books The Human Apparatus Fat City, Leonard Gardner’s novel of the sport of busted beaks. It's strongly reminiscent John Williams ("Stoner") and of the "romans durs" of Georges Simenon (also reprinted by NY Books). Signet. Medicine cannot shoulder the burden or the responsibility. For Tully, as for Gardner’s other midnight riders: “It was time to change hotels.”, Paul Wilner is a Bay Area writer and teacher. The New York Review of Books “Classics” series recently reissued “Fat City,” which had been out of print for more than a decade. A short read on the consequences of indiscriminate consumption which shocks not by intent, but through truth. | Contact this seller | Contact this seller | Contact this seller E-mail: books@sfchronicle.com, (New York Review Books Classics; 191 pages; $14.95 paperback). Nah. I ask a young 200-kilo patient what he snacks on. Mass Market Paperback. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Something we hope you'll especially enjoy: FBA items qualify for FREE Shipping and Amazon Prime.

The depiction of the down-and-out is as relevant now as when the book was first published in 1969. Possible clean ex-library copy, with their stickers and or stamp(s). Gulf Coast Books Fat city by Leonard Gardner, 1969, Farrar, Straus and Giroux edition, in English I most loved the solitary scenes—Munger running until his body gave out, Tully’s dogged quest for the end of a bottle, these snapshots of men on hopeless quests to out run themselves and their lives. Leonard Gardner is an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. Gritty and bleak. Probably a writer’s book more than a causal reader’s book. Mass Market Paperback.

From the medical perspective, her frustration is obvious and I'm sure wide spread in the medical community. 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.”. Mass Market Paperback. 5. Pages and cover are clean and intact. It belonged to him alone, and he did not deserve it either, because he was letting it waste. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. October 2015 Seller Inventory # 52ZZZZ008IK7_ns.

(Toledo, OH, U.S.A.), About this Item: Signet. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Condition: Very Good. Karen Hitchcock.

Condition: Good. | Contact this seller Possible clean ex-library copy, with their stickers and or stamp(s). Mass Market Paperback. (Houston, TX, U.S.A.), About this Item: Signet, 2008. Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Start by marking “Fat City” as Want to Read: Error rating book. | Contact this seller

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Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. Gardner’s strong pose is perfect for a story of this nature and his characters are fully developed. Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Meet in the middle and we’ll call it good. Possible ex library copy, with all the markings/stickers of that library.

Best Bates Seller Inventory # 3179766450. Tell us what you're looking for and once a match is found, we'll inform you by e-mail. What drives the main characters in Fat City is the urge to connect with the women of their lives. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. Fat City is a vivid novel of defiance and struggle, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes. As a medical registrar in an obesity clinic she has heard all the obesity- as- disease stories from people who claim to be addicted to food. The writing, the dialogue, the plot, the down-and-out characters with their demons--Leonard Gardner's Fat City is a total knockout. I agree with her though, it's a pretty uncomfortable truth but we need to face it head on. (Memphis, TN, U.S.A.), About this Item: Signet, 2008. From: New ‘Borat’ movie is a master class on... Legacy SF dive bar continues its mutilating... Why the oldest Netflix Original is still my favorite. Book or contact Fat City band. Signet, 2008. Now we are getting closer. The other character is a younger man who trains in the same gym, hoping for something other than his pregnant wife and stifling life in Stockton. Mass Market Paperback. ISBN 10: 895638746XISBN 13: 9788956387468, From: It's disappointments that come with settling for someone who is simply available yet turning your circumstances into a boring desire. Makeovers Can Be Murder: A Fat City Mystery. More information about this seller That is the theme that spoke to me the most. Item in very good condition and ready to ship - Guaranteed to play!!. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Condition: GOOD. Mass Market Paperback. (Dallas, TX, U.S.A.), About this Item: Signet, 2009. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. Does this have anything to do with the movie Tales from Fat City? It's about the grind and hustling of poverty. First edition. As I read it, some things came back to my memory like deja vu. If fists are your thing, and if their connecting points with both bone and soul is a concomitant obsession, then go buy some new pants and prepare to enter "Fat City". More information about this seller

Dying to Be Thin: A Fat City Mystery by Kathryn Lilley and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. “Along El Dorado and Center Streets between Mormon Slough and the deep-water channel hundreds of farm workers and unemployed loitered in the warm summer evenings,” Gardner writes. Mass Market Paperback. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, and dust jackets may not be included. Published by Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. Battling the twin temptations of booze and bad luck, Tully hooks up with fellow barfly Oma Lee Greer in a folie a deux that offers temporary sustenance, along with chronic pain, even as Munger finds himself in a loveless match with the local sweetheart he has managed to seduce. Discover Books Seller Inventory # 52ZZZZ0066XV_ns. I agree with her though, it's a pretty uncomfortable truth but we need to face it head on. Fat City book. About this Item: Signet. 10. Condition: GOOD. The reissue of “Fat City,” Leonard Gardner’s pitch-perfect account of boxing, blue-collar bewilderment and the battle of the sexes, is cause for celebration, and reflection. A very uncommon book to find signed. Condition: Very Good. | Contact this seller

Condition: GOOD. More information about this seller Ding ding. Reading it I felt the masculine despair of Carver, Bukowski even, a gritty look at men who are not making it.

Blunt. Its prestige has grown since its publication, due to critical acclaim from Joan Didion and Walker Percy, among others. Well, that was short. Norcal and Socal, for all of their rivalries and proclamations of differences are really two sides of a coin. More information about this seller These authors are transcendent experts in creating genuine psychological terror without the horror-story overtones and worn out memes. I found this fascinating. An essay by an Australian doctor that is depressing because there's really no solution. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Seller Inventory # 12237197-6. ISBN 10: 0451222407ISBN 13: 9780451222404, About this Item: Signet.

But the final count is unavoidable. Condition: Very Good. (Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.), About this Item: Condition: New. From the mental health perspective I had a visceral reaction and couldn't help but wince at times during her narrative. Stockton, California is the setting: the Lido Gym, the Hotel Coma, Main Street lunchrooms and dingy bars, days like long twilights in hous… (Dallas, TX, U.S.A.), About this Item: Signet, 2008. Used books may not include companion materials, some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, may not include cdrom or access codes.

Occasionally in The Stockton Record there was an editorial deploring blight.”. Seller Inventory # S_237559583. Reading the book made me think not of this movie, but of other literature, particularly that of Charles Bukowski. Pages contain marginal notes, underlining, and or highlighting. But Denis Johnson, in two pages (I like that), didn't try and tell me how smart he is, or how his writer's insight is more important than my mere reader's view. Fat City won the National Book Award in 1970. | Contact this seller -- devenir champion et faire fortune. | Contact this seller