Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine

Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine
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Publisher : Back Bay Books
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : 9780316093057
ISBN-13 : 031609305X
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Book Synopsis Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine by : Thom Jones

Download or read book Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine written by Thom Jones and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2009-11-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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