Emily Temple
holds a BA from Middlebury College and an MFA in fiction from the
University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns fellow and the
recipient of a Henfield Prize. Temple's first novel is The Lightness.
At Lit Hub she tagged fifty great classic novels under 200 pages. One title on the list:
Leonard Gardner, Fat City (1969) : 183 pagesRead about the other entries on the list.
Universally acknowledged as the best boxing novel ever written, but so much more than that: at its core, it’s a masterpiece about thatsecret likelihood of life, if not of literature: never achieving your dreams.
Fat City is among Johnny Shaw's ten favorite California crime novels that aren't set in Los Angeles or San Francisco, Beth Raymer's six favorite books, and Markus Zusak's top ten boxing books.
Gerald Haslam nominated Fat City as the Great California Novel.
--Marshal Zeringue
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