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Thom Jones's magnificent first collection of stories presents a brutal vision of the human condition, in a world without mercy or redemption. The Pugilist at Rest gives us an America of Vietnam vets and ex-boxers, of bitter lovers in trailer parks, of lives passing in brilliant epileptic flickers.
'Thom Jones has stormed the scene like an angry doberman at a garden party. He is shocking, he is gorgeous . . . A voice so relentless and felonious at once that you ought to need a permit to carry it.' Boston Globe
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A small masterpiece, vividly imagined, wonderful in all ways. (Joyce Carol Oates New Yorker)
A formidable collection. (Observer)
Jones's collection has an unusual power -- the power of authenticity, the experience of bitter lives pressed awkwardly but truly into words. (Independent)
Writers as good as Thom Jones appear but rarely. The original poetry of his fictional world is irresistible, and the sense that he knows this world absolutely has cleansed his prose and produced an affectless sheen . . . Thom Jones is a wonderful writer. (New York Times Book Review)
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A formidable collection. (Observer)
Jones's collection has an unusual power -- the power of authenticity, the experience of bitter lives pressed awkwardly but truly into words. (Independent)
Writers as good as Thom Jones appear but rarely. The original poetry of his fictional world is irresistible, and the sense that he knows this world absolutely has cleansed his prose and produced an affectless sheen . . . Thom Jones is a wonderful writer. (New York Times Book Review)
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- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0571171354
- ISBN 13 9780571171354
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