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Fat city
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Author: Leonard Gardner
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A Little Known Great
"Fat City" is a novel that delivers an uppercut of grit, sadness and human endurance to the reader. Harsh, powerful, and poignant this novel is beautifully rendered in taut prose. It is remarkable how in theme and style Gardner's writing resembles the paintings of the 1930's artist, George Bellows, who also depicts the struggles of boxers and urban poor both in the blood speckled ring and in tenement strewn wastes of American cities. Bravo Gardner, you have your equals in Selby, Melville and Hemingway! But one wonders why this talent has not come into the ring another time and graced his readers with another novel?

A Scrappy Middleweight Masterpiece
"Fat City" is a novel that delivers an uppercut of grit, sadness and human endurance to the reader. Harsh, powerful, and poignant this novel is beautifully rendered in taut prose. It is remarkable how in theme and style Gardner's writing resembles the paintings of the 1930's artist, George Bellows, who also depicts the struggles of boxers and urban poor both in the blood speckled ring and in tenement strewn wastes of American cities. Bravo Gardner, you have your equals in Selby, Melville and Hemingway! But one wonders why this talent has not come into the ring another time and graced his readers with another novel?

A Roundhouse from the Heart
Step in the ring with Gardner and experience the talent of a literary heavyweight. Gardern's writng packs a punch, it is lean, mean and powerful. The characters are desperate men seeking validation and redemption, yet Gardner resists the temptation to pander to our weaker emotions for you feel not pity for these battered souls, but respect. Fat City is Gardners only novel- that is our loss. Read this book and witness a work of true beauty. Fat City is a winner.


Automated Manufacturing (A Symposium Sponsored by Astm Committee E-31 on Computerized Systems San dIego, Calif, 5-6 April 1983)
Published in Hardcover by Amer Society for Testing & (1985)
Author: Leonard B. Gardner
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Fat City/91197 (Vintage Contemporaries)
Published in Paperback by Knopf (1986)
Author: Leonard Gardner
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The Novels of John Gardner: Making Life As a Moral Process
Published in Hardcover by Louisiana State University Press (1988)
Author: Leonard C. Butts
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Plays on a Comic Theme: Butterflies Are Free/A Thousand Clowns/Rinse the Blood Off My Tonga: Butterflies Are Free / A Thousand Clowns / Rinse the Blood Off My Toga
Published in Paperback by McGraw-Hill Education - Europe (1979)
Authors: Leonard Gershe, Herb Gardner, Johnny Wayne, and Cy Groves
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The Road to Easter: An Action-packed Lent and Easter Activity Programme for 5-10s
Published in Paperback by BRF (The Bible Reading Fellowship) (17 November, 2000)
Authors: Jacqui Gardner, Christine Leonard, and James Alexander
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Soil Physics
Published in Textbook Binding by John Wiley & Sons (1972)
Authors: Leonard David, Baver, Wilford R. Gardner, and Walter H. Gardner
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