Jim Thompson's great "After Dark, My Sweet" features an
ex-boxer as the noir protagonist, and if you consider
cockfighting a sport, you've got Charles Willeford's
CockFighter. Btw. I saw the movie Fat City recently of TCM.
It was okay, nothing great, but kind of played a bit like a
Charles Bukowski book.
--Dave Z.
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Channing"
<filmtroll@...> wrote:
>
> I'm currently enjoying Leonard Gardner's "Fat City"
about the seedy
boxing world in Stockton,
> CA. And I recently read and loved Gerald Kersh's
"Night And the
City" which had a good
> amount of seedy wrestling. Does anyone recommend any
other sports
noir books? Or if
> there even are any? There's nothing more low-down
and gritty than a
locker room, in a world
> where winning and losing is everything. Why aren't
there more noir
sports stories? There
> have been quite a few noirish boxing movies, but
where are the books?
>
> Chan
>
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