Harry Crews has been mentioned on this list and his novel The
Knockout Artist is about a boxer involved in the New Orleans
underworld. English crime novelist Russell James' novel Count
Me Out is the story of two brothers, one of whom is a boxer
in a travelling carnival. I've never read James, but his
books are well-received by reviewers. A blurb on the cover
from Time Out says "Count Me Out is as English as Graham
Greene or Ted Lewis." Maybe John Williams can chime in about
this one.
Kent Morgan
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