Ebook {Epub PDF} Fat City by Leonard Gardner

 · Newsweek reviewed "Fat City," a first novel by Leonard Gardner, in a tone that seemed to drop the usual hype -- "It's good. It really is." I wanted to get a review like www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 3 mins. In , Leonard Gardner’s novel Fat City was published. It a story about boxing and drinking in Stockton, California, about losers losing. “I have a strong sense of mortality,” Gardner said in an interview with Life magazine: I feel death hovering about me. It was one of the reasons I started to write.  · By Aaron Gilbreath. Aug. When Farrar, Straus and Giroux first published Leonard Gardner’s Fat City in , the novel created a bit of a stir. A reviewer for the Atlanta Journal said the book was “destined to become a classic,” calling it “a Author: Aaron Gilbreath.

Leonard Gardner was born in Stockton, www.doorway.ru writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Esquire, Southwest Review, and other www.doorway.ru screen adaptation of Fat City was made into a film by John Huston. A Guggenheim Fellow, he lives in northern California. Denis Johnson is the author of eight novels, one novella, one book of short stories, three collections of poetry, two collections. Fat City, by Leonard Gardner, upends the triumphalist clichés of boxing stories, in which a palooka from nowhere overcomes all obstacles through fierce dedication and hard work and wins the title. To say that Fat City is about boxing would be like saying that In Search of Lost Time is about parties in Paris or Moby-Dick is about whaling. 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. Set in Stockton.

Fat City is a novel by Leonard Gardner published in It is his only novel. Its prestige has grown since its publication, due to critical acclaim from Joan Didion and Walker Percy, among others. Denis Johnson cites it as a major influence on his writing. The book is widely considered a classic of boxing fiction. In , Leonard Gardner’s novel Fat City was published. It a story about boxing and drinking in Stockton, California, about losers losing. “I have a strong sense of mortality,” Gardner said in an interview with Life magazine: I feel death hovering about me. It was one of the reasons I started to write. Though Fat City was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art. With this new edition, new generations of readers and writers will discover it, learn from it, and find both wincing pain and deep pleasure. Gardner’s achievement lives on precisely because Fat City is not depressing. The tale is dark, but it is charged with energy.