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Fat City by Leonard Gardner
Wow, this novella completely blew me away. I came to learn about this in reading a news article about poverty and crime in Stockton, California, which is the setting of this book. So many passages completely floored me and the brutal descriptions of the poverty and suffering of one of the main characters was so well written it made it painful for me to read.
This book feels to me like it continues in the same vein as Grapes of Wrath but in a grittier urban environment. I was shocked to realize this was the only book the author has published. It would be hard to top this effort!
#entertainment
Wow, this novella completely blew me away. I came to learn about this in reading a news article about poverty and crime in Stockton, California, which is the setting of this book. So many passages completely floored me and the brutal descriptions of the poverty and suffering of one of the main characters was so well written it made it painful for me to read.
This book feels to me like it continues in the same vein as Grapes of Wrath but in a grittier urban environment. I was shocked to realize this was the only book the author has published. It would be hard to top this effort!
#entertainment
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