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FAT CITY. INSCRIBED by author Leonard Gardner to fellow writer Kenneth Millar (best known under his pen name, Ross Macdonald).Millar's blurb appears (under the Macdonald name) on the rear flap, and reads: "In his pity and art Gardner moves beyond race, beyond guilt and punishment, as Twain and Melville did, into a tragic forgiveness. I have seldom read a novel as beautiful and individual as this one." [email protected] #fatcity #kennethmillar #rossmacdonald #leonardgardner

My #februarywrapup (aka 'the red and the black): ~ 1. #thehouseofmirth #edithwharton 4/5 2. #theredpony #steinbeck 4.5/5 (reread) 3. #themysteriousaffairatstyles #agathachristie 4/5 4. #theredsndtheblack #stendhal 5/5 5. #themeekone #dostoyevsky 3.5/5 6. #theunbearablelightnessofbeing #kundera 3/5 7. #pulp #bukowski 3.5/5 8. #fatcity #leonardgardner 4/5 9. #theclergymansdaughter #orwell 4.5/5 10. #fathersandsons #turgenev 4/5 11. #matilda #maryshelly 4/5 ~ (I somehow forgot the House of Mirth on the photo 😔...) #eatingtheirwordswrapups #bookstagram #bibliophile #bookstack #libri

It's a very exciting surprise #bookmail kind of day. @drummingonthecover sent me these- so generous and spot on! I've wanted to read Fat City and The Fight for a while now, this will be my first Christie (shhh don't tell), and Up in the Old Hotel looks really good. I'm going to assume that all of you are already following Van, because if you aren't that's just silly... . . . . . #bookstagram #bookworm #bibliophile #igreads #libri #instalibri #lettura #bookfriends #fatcity #leonardgardner #themysteriousaffairatstyles #agathachristie #thefight #normanmailer #upintheoldhotel #josephmitchell