The Pugilist at Rest

I am obviously a minority, from other reviews, awards, and Thom Jones' writings, and especially the many praise of 'Resting Boxers'. But here it is said: I have found inward errors and hidden emotions in the whole story. Jones often tells the reader what to feel for the reader rather than letting the reader answer without a prescription. A good example: "I want to live!" My son-in-law is a "naughty" (obviously author-cheap) to a dying woman and a narcotic to alleviate unbearable pain which even others are not acknowledged is. .

According to which benchmark Tom Jones lived a difficult life before, during and after issuance of 'Resting Boxer' (1993). The absent father later killed himself at a mental hospital, an oceanic boot camp, and boxing injuries connected to epilepsy. These themes will occur repeatedly in a novel like a horrible hallucination, but it comes from real life. Indeed, he experienced a trauma and a tragedy by the time he was twenty years old. And it will provide information for his best work. Like Raymond Carver, Jones is good at painting the dirtier side of life, the blue and blue face and the blue collar. Like Charles Bukowski, finding clear lines connecting people, situation, and writing is not difficult. Like Tim O'Brien, it does not mean that his personal history can be used as a driving force, but obsession with memory, pain and regret quickly becomes a unified theme and a creative dead end Become.

Regarding what I was reading, the son of Jesus of Dennis Johnson, the rest boxer of Tom Jones, and the airship of Barry Hannah appeared at the head. Many of these collections draw an unlimited number of men 's bad behavior. Interestingly, all of these Post Vietnamese sentences are immersed in this bad behavior, but for some reason our culture really pampers at least this behavior. There is something like a bad child, we are a little sloppy. We may feel that their actions are truly shocking, but the burden on these people exists in us. I really wanted to say a female version because I did not see anything. I am very interested in the feeling that female characters are very bad. Joanna Scott's various antidotes against me is a very strong commitment to exploring women's identity in ways that are not always fun.

My girlfriend and my sad novels came when I was on that long bus and I asked Thom Jones' "I want to live" from his collection "The Boxer of Rest" I have read. I'd like to live, "Mrs. Wilson met. Just as she found herself suffering from cancer. On the surface, it seems like a terrible idea of ​​the story. A story about a woman who dies of cancer and becomes dead, so that it is almost easy to get better. But somehow, Tom Jones opened it with perfect and beautiful minimalism. We will rise with her orgasms and low tide, but it is painful and painful. We had a glimpse of her marginalized daughter shortly and unexplainably, but she did not give any benefit to her son-in-law, and if she had the opportunity she would be an unexpected hero right. Jones did not come back and taught me all the wonderful things of Mrs. Wilson.