Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Boxing Fiction (was Fat City)

From: sonny ( sforstater@yahoo.com)
Date: 24 Dec 2007


i highly recommend much, if not all, of nick tosches' nonfiction. especially his bio of jerry lee lewis, which is souther noir or maybe gothic at its best and his bio of dean martin which is more hard boiled.

--- Richard Moore < moorich@aol.com> wrote:

> These two look very interesting and I was wondering why I couldn't find
> them on line. In case anyone else looks for them on abebooks, the
> correct spelling of the author's name Thom Jones helps.
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> The mention of Sonny Liston in the Jones collection reminds me of how
> much I liked Nick Tosches' excellent biography of the late boxer.
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> Richard Moore
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> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Seth Harwood <sethharw@...> wrote:
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> > While we're on all this, can't forget or miss the two collections by
> > Tom Jones, "Sonny Liston was a friend of mine" and "The Pugilist at
> > Rest." Both awesome works!
> >
> > Happy holidays everyone,
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> > Seth
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