The Pugilist at Rest: and other stories
Author: Thom Jones
Thom Jones’s magnificent first collection of stories presents a brutal vision of the human condition, in a world without mercy or redemption. The Pugilist at Rest gives us an America of Vietnam vets and ex-boxers, of bitter lovers in trailer parks, of lives passing in brilliant epileptic flickers.,,’Thom Jones has stormed the scene like an angry doberman at a garden party. H….Read More
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