Thom Jones is the author of the short-story collections The Pugilist At Rest, The Cold Snap and Sonny Liston was a Friend of Mine (Faber/Little, Brown).
‘I grew up in a factory town, Aurora, Illinois, some forty miles west of Chicago.’
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