I haven't read either. Ed Lacy (Len Zinburg) wrote some
boxing titles, including Walk Hard, Talk Loud (1940), Go for
the Body
(1954), and The Big Fix (1960). They're not noir but gritty
vintage pulp reads.
Ed
--- Gonzalo Baeza <
gbaeza@gmail.com> wrote:
> Haven't read Angels but I'll look it up. While we
are on the
> subject of
> boxing fiction, how about Budd Schulberg's The
Harder They
> Fall and
> F.X. Toole's short story collection? I haven't read
Toole's
> novel, but
> I hear it's also pretty good.
>
> -Gonzalo
> saddlebums.blogspot.com
>
> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Seth Harwood
> <sethharw@...> wrote:
> >
> > I agree that Gardner's Fat City is a beautiful,
wonderful
> book. I
> > wonder if anyone on this list has read Denis
Johnson's
> ANGELS, which
> > was highly influenced by FAT CITY.
> > I think ANGELS is a phenomenal book in its own
right and
> Johnson one
> > of our best living writers. His JESUS' SON is
still one of
> my
> favorite
> > books ever--not so noir (no guns) but dark as
all get out.
> >
> > For another great story about boxers, in Don
Lee's story
> collection
> > YELLOW, the title story is about as good as
anything I know.
> >
> > Seth
> > sethharwood.com
> >
>
>
>
>
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