Saturday, 14 May 2022

Shadowboxing in the Light

          In a ring under a ceiling of exposed joists, wiring, water and sewage pipes, a negro was shadowboxing in the light of fluorescent tubes. Three men in street clothes, one bald, one with deeply furrowed cheeks, the third wearing a houndstooth-check hat with a narrow upturned brim, all turned their faces toward the door.

Fat City
Leonard Gardner
1969

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/30/travel/leonard-gardner-stockton-california-finding-fat-city-novel.html

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