Fat City Author:Leonard Gardner Fat City tells the story of two young boxers out of Stockton, California: Ernie Munger and Billy Tully, one in his late teens, the other just turning thirty, whose seeming parallel lives intersec for a time. It tells of the two fighters' struggles to escape the confinements of their existence, and of the men and women in their world. Fat City... more » is a novel about the sporting life like no other ever written.« less