Thom Jones
Thom Jones was a combat veteran and amateur boxer whose short story collection The Pugilist at Rest, winner of the National Book Award nomination, brought a new voice of physical intensity and philosophical extremity to American fiction.
Works
- The Pugilist at RestDisabled boxer grapples with violence, consciousness, and meaning in fragmented stories
- Cold SnapStories of obsession, violence, and fractured psyches in contemporary America
- Sonny Liston Was a Friend of MineStories exploring masculine angst, obsession, and violence in the modern world