Fat City - Leonard Gardner Estonia His posthumous collection of poetry

His posthumous collection of poetry

The murder and the investigation inspired both Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone and Dickens’ The Mystery of Edwin Drood

satisfying volume of earthly delights

Clarke’s brilliance as a graphic artist is clearly visible in his book illustrations

Fat City - Leonard Gardner Estonia His posthumous collection of poetryFat City by Leonard Gardner ISBN 9781590178928 200 page paperback published by New York Review Books Classics *** Fat City is a vivid novel of allegiance and defeat, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes. Stockton, California, is the setting: the Lido Gym, the Hotel Coma, Main Street lunchrooms and dingy bars, days like long twilights in houses obscured by untrimmed shrubs and black