Bibliographical Description
86.10.W026: Gardner – Fat City
fat city | LEONARD GARDNER | VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES | VINTAGE BOOKS A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE NEW YORK
First Vintage Books Edition, October 1986
2 leaves, pp. [4] 1–3 4-13 14 15-17 18 19-22 23 24-27 28 29-30 31 32-37 38 39-45 46 47-51 52 53-61 62 63-68 69 70-77 78 79-84 85 86-87 88 89-98 99 100-106 107 108-115 116 117-120 121 122-127 128 129-133 134 135-139 140 141-156 157 158-168 169 170-171 172 173-183 [5]
Contents: π1a blurbs and author photo, π1b blank, π2a title, π2b imprint, 1 fly-title, 2 blank, 3-183 Fat City, χ1b blank, χ2a about the author, χ2b blank, χ3a Vintage Contemporaries order form, χ3b Vintage Contemporaries list.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Rick Lovell; interior author photo by Thomas Victor.
Copyright: ©1969. ISBN: 0-394-74316-4. Price: $6.95. Fat City was first published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969.
Copies: JDP 1.2
Blurbs
- (front cover) A quintessentially American story of surpassing beauty and heartbreak…flawlessly rendered, unforgettable. – Joyce Carol Oates
- Originally published in 1969, and subsequently made into a film by John Huston, Fat City is a true American classic—whose stature has only increased over the years—set in and around Stockton, California.
- Fat City is about dreamers. – John Huston
- Really a superior performance….Gardner takes us into the bitter fancies of two professional prizefighters…the first is a has-been, the second is learning to lose. A third character, their manager, links the pair in defeat and frustration….Gardner strips them of everything except the most important thing: their singularity….Of such a seemingly small gift is dignity born and success measured. – Newsweek
- Fat City affected me more than any new fiction I have read in a long while, and I do not think it affected me only because I come from Fat City, or somewhere near it….He has got it exactly right…but he has done more than just get it down, he has made it a metaphor for the joyless in heart. – Joan Didion
- Gardner has laid claim to a locale that others have explored, but seldom with such accuracy and control…in a tone that is both detached and lyrical. The triumph of the book is its action. Running, fighting, loving, weeding, harvesting, these men stay in motion in order not to be doomed. So powerfully does Gardner record their actions that we recall their lives, not their defeats. – The New York Times Book Review