Saturday, 21 September 2013

More Fat City





         Gardner wrote Fat City as a moody elegy to the wayward dreamers who fight in tank-town arenas, then retreat to flophouses and shotgun weddings, day labor and rotgut drinking binges.
        There is no championship at stake here, no cable-tv money, no Vegas fling. There is only the bleak skyline of Stockton, Calif. ..............


John Schulian
from
Trust Me on This - As True as a Crisp Left hook
Los Angeles Times 1992

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Fat City
John Huston 1972

                              https://www.pushkinpress.com/read-chapter-one-of-fat-city/

2 comments:

  1. Unknown9/22/2013 5:23 pm

    Great book and film, sadly neglected.

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  2. fragments of noir9/23/2013 8:33 am

    That's very true David. I've always been a bigger fan of the book rather than the film, even thugh it was directed by the excellent John Huston, and i would probably choose it as my favourite novel.

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