Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine

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  • Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine Book Detail

  • Author : Thom Jones
  • Release Date : 2009-11-29
  • Publisher : Back Bay Books
  • Genre : Fiction
  • Pages : 200
  • ISBN 13 : 031609305X
  • File Size : 51,51 MB

Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine by Thom Jones PDF Summary

Book Description: The author's world encompasses dilapidated fight arenas, state mental hospitals & chaotic emergency rooms. The inhabitants are his brilliantly etched characters, who battle desperately against fate in a game of life they cannot win but dare not lose. As we approach the end of the century & the millennium, no one writes better or more vividly than Jones does about the personal, private apocalypses we all face in our darkest moments. In one story, a Vietnam vet, a Recon Marine, swims alone across the English Channel, the Straits of Gibraltar, & the Bosporus to maintain "the edge" that kept him alive in wartime - & that is all he now has left. In another, a brilliant doctor verges on a breakdown. In the title story, a young amateur fighter stoically endures repetitive beatings because he knows the world of boxing shields & protects him from the even crueler world outside of the ring. A number of these stories have appeared in different forms in the New Yorker, Playboy, & Esquire.

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