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epub (i am not sure if it's a retail version) Thom Jones' world encompasses dilapidated fight arenas, state mental hospitals, and chaotic emergency rooms. The inhabitants are his brilliantly etched characters, who battle desperately against fate in a game of life they cannot win but dare not lose. Now, with "Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine," Jones serves up a dozen powerful stories that teeter between wicked humor and stinging pathos. In "Fields of Purple Forever, " a Vietnam vet swims alone across the English Channel, the Straits of Gibraltar, and the Bosporus to maintain "the edge" that kept him alive in wartime - and which is all he now has left. "You Cheated, You Lied" tells the deranged love story of two unstable people abandoning their lives and medications to live together in a shack on a Honolulu beach - with disastrous results. And in the title story, a young amateur fighter stoically endures repetitive beatings because he knows the world of boxing shields and protects him from the even crueler world outside the ring.

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Author

Thom Jones

Publisher

Back Bay Books

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780316472234

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.99 / 5 (50 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14