TITLE: THE PUGILIST AT REST
AUTHOR: THOM JONES
PUBLISHER: LITTLE, BROWN; 230 PAGES; $18.95
THE BOTTOM LINE: Tough guys stare back at their violent lives in these first- rate stories.
The first appearance of a very good writer, especially the sort of writer who breaks off jagged pieces of his own life and holds them up as fiction, is a tense, edgy pleasure for the reader. How fragile is the fine new talent? How broad and solid? How many fragments remain to be broken off and displayed, and after that, what will be left?
Thom Jones' first book is a sheaf...
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