Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780316472401)

Twelve new stories that teeter between wicked humor and stinging pathos, all told in a voice that the Boston Globe called "so relentless and felonious that you ought to need a permit to carry it." Thom Jones's world encompasses dilapidated right 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.

Author: Thom Jones
ISBN-10: 0316472409
ISBN-13: 9780316472401
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Language: English
Published: 01/12/2000
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 8.53h x 5.47w x 0.79d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 02/06/2000 pg. 28