Leonard Gardner's Fat City

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Fat City, a novel by Leonard Gardner, follows the story of two boxers in Stockton, California. One an eighteen year old prodigy named Eddie Munger and a worn down and out boxer called Billy Tully. Billy Tully starts drinking immensely to cope with the fact that his glory days so to speak are behind him. Ernie reminds Tully of him at the peak of his life and tries to mold him into his image which did not go well for Tully. This one hit novel was adapted into a film. As all movies adapted from films the original story loses its essence. The plot is much different in the book then the movie. The book goes much more into detail. The scenery in the book sets the tone and gives character to the town of Stockton but in the film it is just a city

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