A review by wesb
The Puglist at Rest by Thom Jones

5.0

A lot of reviews call this collection “manly” and make comparisons to Hemingway, Bukowski, et al., but these felt much more sensitive and cerebral than all those. The boxing and war stuff seems to me more like the latent content Jones himself had to work with, but his treatment of this subjects is by no means in-line with the typical Papa Hemingway posturing some reviews lead one to believe.

I think reading a bit about Thom Jones himself helped contextualize some of these stories.