Monday, 28 October 2024

Turned their Faces

        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.goodreads.com/en/book/show/154869

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