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Fat City is a vivid novel of allegiance and defeat, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes. Stockton, California, is the setting: the Lido Gym, the Hotel Coma, Main Street lunchrooms and dingy bars, days like long twilights in houses obscured by untrimmed shrubs and black walnut trees. When two men meet in the ring--the retired boxer Billy Tully and the newcomer Ernie Munger--their brief bout sets into motion their hidden fates, initiating young Munger into the company of men and luring Tully back into training. In a dispassionate and composed voice, Leonard Gardner narrates their swings of fortune, and the stubborn optimism of their manager, Ruben Luna, as he watches the most promising boys one by one succumb to some undefined weakness; still, 'There was always someone who wanted to
Fat City is a vivid novel of allegiance and defeat, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes. Stockton, California, is the setting: the Lido Gym, the Hotel Coma, Main Street lunchrooms and dingy bars, days like long twilights in houses
Classic Elmore Leonard - a killer is on the loose in a gripping thriller set in
An utterly absorbing story about troubled families and twisted fates.' SHARI LAPENA, author of The Couple Next Door__________________SHOULD THEY SAVE HER - OR STOP HER?Detective DD Warren and Flora Dane are in a race against time to save a young girl's life - or bring her to
Shanghai, 1927, and revolution is in the air. As the city becomes caught up in violence and bloodshed, four people's lives are altered inexorably. Each of these men must try to resolve their personal conflicts amid political turmoil, conspiracy and
Having saved the city cats from a fate worse than death, Varjak Paw finds himself the elected and popular leader of a new gang - a gang that supports freedom and kindness for all. Soon the city erupts in an all-out gang war as the evil Sally Bones attempts to control the lives of all
Set in lush, heady Colombia - and also in a jungle-like New York City - it brings together the fates of guerrilla soldiers, rich kids, rabbits, hostages, bourgeois expats, and drug dealers. Exploring what makes a victim and what makes a perpetrator, these stories show lives fatefully entwined,
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner, a propulsive thriller featuring an ordinary woman who will stop at nothing to find the missing people that the rest of the world has forgotten Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering
'The fates ordained the founding of this great city and the beginning of the world's mightiest empire, second only to the power of the gods' Romulus and Remus, the rape of Lucretia, Horatius at the bridge, the saga of Coriolanus, Cincinnatus called from his farm to save the state - these and many
Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his
In 2012, Thomas Gardner and Salome Voegelin hosted a colloquium, entitled 'Music - Sound Art: Historical Continuum and Mimetic Fissures,' at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. This colloquium dealt with the current fervent debate concerning the relationship between
'Leonard is tops in his field.' --New Orleans Times-PicayuneThe great Elmore Leonard, 'America's pre-eminent crime fiction writer' (Chicago Tribune), takes readers back to Prohibition days in the back hills of Kentucky in a rollicking story of guns, greed, and illegally brewed corn liquor. The
The wickedly candid New York Times bestesller that Ava Gardner dared not publish during her lifetime--'the heartbreaking memoir of the ultimate heartbreaker' (Philadelphia Inquirer). Ava Gardner was one of Hollywood's biggest and brightest stars during the 1940s and '50s, an Oscar-nominated leading
From the world-famous creator of 'Perry Mason,' Erle Stanley Gardner comes another baffling case for the Cool & Lam detective agency. HBO series Perry Mason airs June 2020 starring Matthew Rhys in the titular role. Erle Stanley Gardner was not just the creator of PERRY MASON - at the time of his