Re: RARA-AVIS: Sports Noir

From: Steve Singleton ( singleton2003@comcast.net)
Date: 13 Feb 2007


Eddie Muller's THE DISTANCE, and SHADOW BOXER both feature the fight scene in postwar San Francisco, with fictional boxing columnist Billy Nichols as the protagonist.

Channing wrote:
> I'm currently enjoying Leonard Gardner's "Fat City" about the seedy boxing world in Stockton,
> CA. And I recently read and loved Gerald Kersh's "Night And the City" which had a good
> amount of seedy wrestling. Does anyone recommend any other sports noir books? Or if
> there even are any? There's nothing more low-down and gritty than a locker room, in a world
> where winning and losing is everything. Why aren't there more noir sports stories? There
> have been quite a few noirish boxing movies, but where are the books?
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> RARA-AVIS home page: http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/
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