'Outside it was still dark.The rain that had kept Tully in the room with a fifth of whiskey and a loaf of whole-wheat bread was still falling'.
'The northbound Greyhound droned into Stockton's fume filled terminal, and among the passengers who filed stiffly out was a short Mexican wearing a camel's hair overcoat and pointed high-heeled yellow gaiter shoes'.
Fat City
Leonard Gardner
1969
I never read the book, but the film was terrific. When Keach and Bridges are sitting at the counter of that grimy diner, Keach points to a down-and-outer at the other end of the counter and says to Bridges, "How'd you like to wake up every morning--and be him?"
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