pugilist
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Timed for the 25th anniversary of “The Pugilist at Rest,” this posthumous collection brings together Jones’s most recent published work, peopled by his usual cast of American grifters and drifters.
From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2018
The first Mason fiction I read was “Death of the Pugilist or, the Famous Battle of Jacob Burke & Blindman McGraw.”
From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2018
“The Pugilist at Rest,” his first and most famous story, took its title from a Greek sculpture and was inspired by Mr. Jones’s stint in the Marines.
From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2016
Thom Jones, the Illinois-born short-story writer who has died, aged 71, of complications from diabetes, rocketed onto the literary scene in 1991, when the New Yorker published his Vietnam War story The Pugilist at Rest.
From The Guardian • Oct. 20, 2016
A Pugilist met the Moral Sentiment of the Community, who was carrying a hat-box.
From Fantastic Fables by Bierce, Ambrose
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