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The Pugilist at Rest

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Thom Jones made his literary debut in The New Yorker in 1991. Within six months his stories appeared in Harper's, Esquire, Mirabella, Story, Buzz, and in The New Yorker twice more. "The Pugilist at Rest" - the title story from this stunning collection - took first place in Prize Stories 1993: The O. Henry Awards and was selected for inclusion in Best American Short Stories...more

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Published May 4th 1994 by Back Bay Books (first published 1993)

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Feb 03, 2013 Laura Leaney rated it 4 of 5 stars

The Kirkus Review says this: "These 11 mostly hard-luck stories, with their mean and nutty existential heroes and their punch-drunk visions of hell, place Jones right among the literary heavyweights. In many of these gritty tales, first-timer Jones displays the peculiar genius of the autodidact--someone who contemplates the great ideas on his own, and tests them against the rawest of everyday experience." I think "mean and nutty" pretty much characterizes the protagonists of all these stories -...more The Kirkus Review says this: "These 11 mostly hard-luck stories, with their mean and nutty existential heroes and their punch-drunk visions of hell, place Jones right among the literary heavyweights. In many of these gritty tales, first-timer Jones displays the peculiar genius of the autodidact--someone who contemplates the great ideas on his own, and tests them against the rawest of everyday experience." I think "mean and nutty" pretty much characterizes the protagonists of all these stories - with the exception of the sweet stouthearted special education janitor of the story "Silhouettes."

The first section, composed of three stories, share Vietnam as a backdrop - but seem less about the war than about the emotional trajectory of human violence and its aftermath. The first two are in country. The third story takes place in the neuropsych ward at Camp Pendleton. One of the astonishing things about these stories is how Jones loads them with references to art and literature (the protagonist always seems to be a reader) in the strangest of settings. But it works - and I liked it. It's odd how many of the stories are named for songs: "Break On Through," "Wipeout," "Unchain My Heart," and Rocket-Man.” I wonder about the others - although I think the story "I Want to Live!" might be a nod to Schopenhauer whose famous line is (inexact, I’m sure): “It is a total contradiction to want to live without wanting to suffer.” Then again, maybe not.

The next sections (not set in Nam) are also filled with the “mean and nutty.” "Wipeout," narrated by a serial seducer, begins with: "I believe in the philosophy of rock 'n' roll. Like, 'If you want to be happy for the rest of your life, don't make a pretty woman your wife.' I mean, who can refute that? Can Immanuel Kant refute that? How can you refute that? I mean really. Any guy knows this is true, even a shallow, superficial guy like me." This story pairs with "Unchain My Heart" about a sex-crazed, highly energetic, female book editor who cannot get enough of the hyper-masculine physique. She meets her lover, a diver, when he "arises from the floor of the ocean" on a platform somewhere on the North Sea because breathing "heavy concentrations of nitrogen [. . .] gives him a hard-on that won't quit." I think I laughed here - because Jones's characterization is too fabulous to believe. Read this: "Stripped down to his bathing suit, Bocassio takes me in his arms and kisses me deeply. He smells of sea salt, tobacco, and musk. Barechested, his muscles are taut, hard and slablike beneath his dark sun-baked skin." It’s interesting that she's a book editor - with an eye for the next big thing - when she finds "a writer with an authentic new voice -- vibrant, powerful, compelling." Hmmm. Thom Jones?

The last story might have been my favorite. “Rocket Man” is basically a conversation between two men – both Marine Corp boxers – one young (and ready to fight) and the other, older and washed-up, is alcoholic and bitter. The young Prestone has come to get his “head” right before taking on a fight – and W.L. Moore is his mentor. Moore tells him: “ In every human breast there is a fund of hatred, anger, envy, rancour and malice, accumulated like the venom in a serpent's tooth, and waiting only for an opportunity of venting itself, and then, to storm and rage like a demon unchained." Somehow, I have a feeling, there's a Kant-Schopenhauer-Shakespeare-and Milton sandwich here. From an alcoholic Marine Corp boxer. I don't know many writers who can pull that off.
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Sep 07, 2007 Eric rated it 5 of 5 stars

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thom brown's books will grab you by the fucking throat and throttle you until you put the thing down. i'm constantly amazed at how powerful and visceral his stories are. and that's not their only appeal -- powerful scenes do not alone make great stories. these are stories that are not necessarily traditional in their structure, or in how the epiphanies unfold. but the end justifies the means.

i believe this is his greatest collection, but that's not to say that 'cold snap' or 'sonny liston...' a...more

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Sep 18, 2007 Elaine rated it 4 of 5 stars

One of the best story collections, aside from Tim O'Brien's THE THINGS THEY CARRIED, about the Vietnam war (or war in general) that I've ever read. The title stories from both of these collections are powerful and haunting.

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Apr 15, 2013 James rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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If I could isolate Part I as its own volume, I'd probably five-star it. But after the perfect-perfect "Black Lights" and its perfect-perfect ending, this nervy little thing and I just couldn't get back on the same wavelength. The voice of nearly every narrator outside of the T.J. surrogate (including his significantly altered appearance in "Mosquitoes") quickly grows tiring in one way or another, even when the satire is funny ("Wipeout") or Jones's ample references characteristically incisive an...more

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Feb 04, 2013 John Arfwedson rated it 5 of 5 stars

Thom Jones comes at you like great boxers do when they've got you trapped on the ropes, twelfth round, thirty seconds left - full of exhausted fury, shadowy, unpredictable combinations, a swarming, relentless, impossible energy, desperate imagination, feints of all kinds, and the barking, savage voices of those who've felt more than once they were about to die...on the battlefield, in the ring, at three o'clock in the morning twenty years later, trying to figure out how the hell, exactly, am I g...more Thom Jones comes at you like great boxers do when they've got you trapped on the ropes, twelfth round, thirty seconds left - full of exhausted fury, shadowy, unpredictable combinations, a swarming, relentless, impossible energy, desperate imagination, feints of all kinds, and the barking, savage voices of those who've felt more than once they were about to die...on the battlefield, in the ring, at three o'clock in the morning twenty years later, trying to figure out how the hell, exactly, am I going to make it through this night.

All eleven stories here deserve to be read (some many times), but, for me, three are indisputably superb. The first, "The Pugilist at Rest" (what a great title!)takes the hero from Marine training to the inferno of Vietnam to Theogenes (yes, Theogenes) to facing brain surgery in hopes of fixing what's broken. Of course he makes us see that what's really needed is soul surgery but, unfortunately, as we all know, even though each one of us is in that primal business the problem is nobody knows how to do it. The main beauty here, formally, is the story's gorgeous structure. Jones puts elements together that shouldn't really work, but do, because of his artistry (in fiction) and richness (in heart).

The second story, "I Want To Live!" follows, in first person, a woman dying from cancer. Again, it shouldn't work, but it does. Her struggle to live is heartbreaking, overwhelmingly human, and as real as it gets. I don't think I'll ever forget her revisited childhood memories, at the end, of the rooster and the decoder ring. Only the best writers can imagine such things - it's why we read them. (John Updike chose this for inclusion in "Best American Short Stories of the Century"; Updike, that elegant and patrician artisan, is not the sort of stylist one would normally associate with Jones - more proof of Jones's power here, I think.)

The third story, "Rocket Man", is an indelible work of art. It purports to be about two boxers, one young and one old, one dying and one just thinking about it, but it's really about the struggle to exist in the face of what we know and the pain that binds us. It's a platonic love story of two men united by the savagery and death-in-lifeness of boxing, and the savagery and life-in-deathness that is life. They're trying, each in his way, to keep the other alive, and the sight of it is a beautiful thing to behold.

When you finish reading this book, you may feel secure in the knowledge that you are not "them", or "him" or "her", and that you are, in fact, ahead on points.

But remember this, what every fighter who ever lived knows to be true - the punch that knocks you out, the one that truly, finally does it...we never get to see that one coming.(less)

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May 19, 2012 Daniel rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is a re-visitation of Jones for me, having read his work in various magazines and anthologies—back in the day, when I kept up—and remembering … well, frankly, not liking it. I re-visit because it has happened—again and again—that a writer whose work I remember not liking becomes, upon re-reading, a writer I enjoy and admire very much. (This has happened with Alice Munro, Henry James, Nicholson Baker, William Gibson, Carol Bly.) What I remember about not liking Jones had something to do with...more

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Feb 05, 2012 Ensiform rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, stories

A collection of stories, most of which have appeared before. The stories are:

“The Pugilist At Rest,” an O. Henry-winner about a Vietnam vet, ex-Marine and boxer, who developed a form of epilepsy from head blows. His Hemingway-esque recollections are mixed with musings on Theogenes the gladiator or Schopenhauer’s existentialism. Somehow, though, the erudition doesn’t stand out like a sore thumb, as one might think in the mouth of such a character. Instead, the whole is a fascinating glimpse into...more

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Aug 29, 2009 Michael rated it 3 of 5 stars

Denis Johnson and Thom Jones share the same muse. This should be a relief, since having read Denis Johnson before this book made it seem that Johnson had his creative proboscus sniffing up creativity in some locked away subterranean hole. Two probosci, one hole. Which brings me to my other point; these stories present a decidedly masculine energy, one that is strangely tender. I have never seen the Kid Rock Scott Stapp prostitute orgy video, but I imagine some tender moments emerged between the...more

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Jul 07, 2012 Jennifer M. Hartsock rated it 3 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. In “The Pugilist at Rest,” Jones’ reveals the deepest psychological moment when our narrator fights a “light heavy-weight from artillery” that results with depression and epilepsy. This event correlates with each character who has sacrificed their life, metaphorically or literally, to the trauma of war. In our narrator’s flashback, we learn that Jorgeson “[isn’t] a true believer,” yet is bullied by Hey Baby. Our narrator uses the butt of his gun to harm Hey Baby, justifying an act of violence wi...more

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May 17, 2011 Jessica rated it 4 of 5 stars

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I hate these fucking stars. I enjoyed this book a lot, but I just get so stressed-out trying to quantify that. These stories were about boxers (men and dogs), marines, sex, gender, and traumatic brain injury. What's not to like? Good question: the philosophy stuff. Sometimes all the philosophers and manliness tropes made me feel annoyed and bored, and this book reminded me of that tiresome guy on a motorcycle with a pack of Camel straights in his shirtsleeve, who's just trying way too painfully...more

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Apr 10, 2013 Michael Anson rated it 5 of 5 stars

This story really captures, in my mind, the essence of what it means to be a Marine, what it means to stick by your buddies, what it's like to have a cause, something that matters more than life or death. This book is about dedication, determination, and due diligence. The term pugilist translates, roughly, as a boxer, a prizefighter. Written from the first person perspective point-of-view, author Thom Jones traces his main character, an unnamed Marine, as he reflects back on his years of servic...more

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Dec 02, 2011 Josh Duggan rated it 5 of 5 stars

Having been given this book as a gift years ago, The Pugilist at Rest, a National Book Award finalist for fiction in 1993, puzzlingly sat on my shelf unread for at least five years. There is no real reason for this. It simply happened. Books were bought, placed on a shelf that had no room for them, covered by other books bought afterward, and buried behind front-stacked books.

Without prejudice I was unable to manage to get around to this book.

This was a mistake.

With a couple of minor exceptions,...more Having been given this book as a gift years ago, The Pugilist at Rest, a National Book Award finalist for fiction in 1993, puzzlingly sat on my shelf unread for at least five years. There is no real reason for this. It simply happened. Books were bought, placed on a shelf that had no room for them, covered by other books bought afterward, and buried behind front-stacked books.

Without prejudice I was unable to manage to get around to this book.

This was a mistake.

With a couple of minor exceptions, each short story in this collection is magnificent. There is a verve to his prose that is instantaneously engaging and nearly arresting. The characters jump off the pages, occupying a territory within a very real world without seeming too familiar. With many of the events and character traits clearly derived from personal experience, the stories (especially the Vietnam ones) ring true.

If there is a shortcoming, it is that Jones has issues inhabiting a female voice in the story "Unchain My Heart." Unlike the other story in the collection from a female point-of-view, "I Want to Live!" there is a knowledge of the character that seems at least somewhat deficient. Where "I Want to Live!" could conceivably have been told from the POV of a woman, the story of a female journalist smitten with a deep-sea diver simply comes across a man writing what he thinks a woman might think, which given the quality of work in the remainder of the vignettes is a bit of a disappointment.

What works is virtually everything else. The Vietnam material is the most gripping, but the stories "As of July 6..." "Wipeout," and "Unchain My Heart" are all damn fine pieces of short fiction. "Silhouettes" is also quite memorable and covers atypical territory in the form of a Special Ed student/janitor whose special lady friend is stepping out on him.

While cursed with the expectations that go hand-in-hand with being a National Book Award Finalist, The Pugilist at Rest does not fail to engage and enthrall. Upon finishing the book, one isn't possessed by an urge to question the selection committee, and that, in and of itself, speaks volumes.

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Apr 20, 2007 Dave rated it 5 of 5 stars

Thom Jones is an excellent writer of short stories, this collection is especially good. The war stories are fantastic, the insight into the 'sweet science' of boxing is fascinating. Frank, violent, funny and oftentimes strangely beautiful, his voice as a writer is very strong and very compelling.

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Jul 03, 2007 M rated it 4 of 5 stars

I don't what I love more: Thom Jones, the alcoholic janitor-turned-fiction writer, or the writing itself. These tales are lean and staggering -- it's a punch drunk tour of self-awareness and redemption.

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May 07, 2013 Mark rated it 4 of 5 stars

I wanted to give this book five stars. I gave it four because it reminded me of listening to a really good album that contained a couple of clunkers. Some of these stories are devastating in their mastery, their language, their characterizations, and their indelible characters — characters who cling to life, dreams, illusions, and even hallucinations with transcendent might. "The Pugilist at Rest", "I Want to Live", "White Horse", and "Rocket Man" are inimitable and unforgettable. Other stories...more

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May 27, 2009 Tiny Pants rated it 2 of 5 stars

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I recently came upon a cheap copy of this book at a discount bookstore in my area, and remembered liking it so decided to give it a go. Why not -- I mean, it's good for me to throw some literary fiction in there now and again, right? This reminded me, however, of why I always wind up reading literary short fiction. I don't know if I just had really different taste in college (very possible) or if I am actually remembering liking Cold Snap (slightly less possible, since I'm pretty sure I distinct...more

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Apr 12, 2013 Cornelius Browne rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Thom Jones has been a Marine, a boxer with over 150 fights, an advertising copywriter and a janitor, so it's no surprise that his first collection of stories is heavily autobiographical. The three Vietnam stories form the meat of the book - the title story is a classic, and the other two near-masterpieces. Sometimes, whenever Jones strays a little distance from his own life story, the results can be entertaining, but one-dimensional. He does, however, deliver a knockout blow in his story of a wo...more

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Apr 12, 2012 Andrew rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This collection of stories reads like the grandson of Raymond Carver. Gritty, realistic, shot through with humanity and observation. Many of them feature boxing and/or Vietman but you don't have to have an interest in those topics (I don't) in order to enjoy the stories. My only quibble is that they can end rather abruptly. I didn't need a twist in the tale conclusion, but a final sentence which felt like a final sentence might have been useful. (Having said that, in "I Want To Live!" - the only...more

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Feb 25, 2010 Erik rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Hands down, the best short story collection I have ever read. Thom stands firmly on the shoulders of Hemingway and Raymond Carver and delivers a most delicious dose of gritty literary fiction. His characters range from damaged, Schopenhauer-reading war vets, to suffering epileptics, lustful ladies, and down-and-out former boxers who struggle to keep it together. These characters are the ones who live on the fringe, but ultimately survive no matter what life throws at them. Every story is a darkl...more

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Mar 31, 2009 Ob-jonny rated it 5 of 5 stars

A great collection of short stories. About half of the short stories are centered around a Vietnam veteran in various stages of his life. It kind of has that "Pulp Fiction" effect where without any warning you find yourself in a different stage of his life. The main characters in each story seem very real and are likable. Some of the situations are pretty dark and gruesome, but the main characters always seem to persevere and at least handle situations in an interesting way. In general you get a...more

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Apr 06, 2011 John Luiz rated it 5 of 5 stars

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A contemporary classic. Thom Jones has won wide recognition. The title story is particularly famous, and "I Want to Live" was selected by John Updike as one of the best short stories of the 20th century. The praise is all well-deserved. There's an amazing range of talent at work here. Apparently, Jones was a Marine during the war, but never left the states. It's hard to believe that he didn't have firsthand experience to fuel the details that fill the stories in Part I of the collection. They ar...more

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Oct 07, 2012 Ben Loory rated it 3 of 5 stars

i remember reading "a white horse" many years ago and thinking "oh my god, who is this, how is this happening, this is amazing, holy shit, someone wrote this???" and then getting to the end and turning the page and turning it back and just staring at it blankly. that's the end? what, did he die or something? and that's how i feel about every story in this book. (except the ones in the middle, which just aren't very good.) it's an amazing, thrilling, fantastic voice, but he just can't write an en...more

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Aug 25, 2011 Joe rated it 4 of 5 stars

Fantastic tough guy dick-lit collection of stories. This would've been right in my wheelhouse sophomore year of college. The same handful of motifs run throughout all the stories (boxers, Vietnam, epilepsy, bad fathers)...I could see how some might find it repetitive - I didn't mind it so much. It was kinda fun wondering how he was gonna work them into some of the stories. A few poignant moments, a ton of machismo dick waving (the author photo is priceless)...I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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Feb 08, 2013 Ryan Williams rated it 4 of 5 stars

The work that helped de-stuffify the New Yorker. Like Denis Johnson with added testosterone, his tales of pugs, soldiers and drug addicts have the rare ability of making disintegration thoroughly addictive reading - perhaps best in a story aptly titled 'I Want to Live!'.

Later works impress, but for me never quite equalled as much as this collection.

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Dec 27, 2011 Cliff rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Potent doses of hyper-masculinity, and surprisingly thematic. The title for this collection is apt--these are strong-willed fighters who have been domesticated or restrained against their nature and must learn to cope as a result. Loved the interspersed details that helped to loosely connect several stories to one another.

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Jun 07, 2009 Jaynez rated it 3 of 5 stars

Short stories by a former boxer/janitor turned writer. Sort of manly yet sensitive and contemplative, sad and a bit cynical but not lacking a sense of the absurdity of life.
I like it. Brings to mind Tim O'Brien, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Carver.
I seem to be going through a pugilist fascination period.

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Dec 06, 2012 Eli rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Five years ago, these super-masculine, 'fighting and drinking with deep sorrow', curt stories would have got five stars from me but nowadays I almost 100% find reading about war a bit of a drag so that part was like ah sigh ho hum pfft. The rest of the stories are brilliant but not quite as brilliant as Denis Johnson. So three stars! But he is great.

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Oct 01, 2010 Eric Moreno rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Apr 21, 2010 Nate rated it 3 of 5 stars

In my opinion, the title short story "The Pugilist At Rest," is the only reason there is a short story collection. Usually the pleasure of a short story collection is finding those hidden treasures, but aside from "The Pugilist at Rest," it was the same story over and over again.

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Apr 18, 2012 Heidi Willis rated it 5 of 5 stars

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These short stories are not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach. In the vein of Tim O'Brien, Jones explores the effect of war on soldiers, both in the field and upon returning, with a good mix of boxing and brain injury mixed in. Although brutal in nature, these stories never lapse into pity. They do not ask the reader to sympathize or to judge, but offer instead the opportunity to peak into the mind of someone riddled by drugs, brain injury, and PTS, and maybe, just maybe, find a kernel o...more

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About Thom Jones

Thom Jones (born January 26, 1945) is an American writer, primarily of short stories.

Jones was raised in Aurora, Illinois, and attended the University of Hawaii, where he played catcher on the baseball team. He later attended the University of Washington, from which he graduated in 1970, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, from which he received an M.F.A. in 1973.
Jones traine...more Thom Jones (born January 26, 1945) is an American writer, primarily of short stories.

Jones was raised in Aurora, Illinois, and attended the University of Hawaii, where he played catcher on the baseball team. He later attended the University of Washington, from which he graduated in 1970, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, from which he received an M.F.A. in 1973.
Jones trained in Force Reconnaissance in the Marine Corps but was discharged before his unit was sent to Vietnam. This and other personal experiences, including the suicide of his boxer father in a mental institution, have become important sources of material for his fiction. After graduation from college, he worked as a copywriter for a Chicago advertising agency and later as a janitor, all the while reading and writing for hours each day. He was "discovered" well into his forties by the fiction editors of The New Yorker, who published a series of his stories in the early 1990s, including "The Pugilist at Rest", which won an O. Henry Award.
Jones currently resides in Olympia, Washington. He has temporal lobe epilepsy and suffers from diabetes.

In 1973, Jones published an animal-fantasy allegory in the dystopian George Orwell mode titled "Brother Dodo's Revenge" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

His first book, published in 1993, was the short-story collection The Pugilist at Rest. The stories deal with common themes of mortality and pain, with characters that often find a kind of solace in the rather pessimistic philosophy of Schopenhauer. Boxing, absent or mentally ill fathers, physical trauma and the Vietnam War are also recurring motifs. The collection was a National Book Award finalist. Jones' other two collections of short stories include Cold Snap (1995) and Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine (1999).

His story "Night Train," which originally appeared in the magazine Tin House, was included in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004. A humorous essay, "Easter Island Noodles Almondine," about time Jones spent as a youth working for the General Mills plant in Aurora, Illinois, appeared in an issue of Granta focused on Chicago, published in 2009. And "Bomb Shelter Noel," a story about a diabetic girl, was published in the January 2011 issue of Playboy.

Reports have appeared stating Jones has written scripts for feature films, including a Vietnam screenplay for Cheyenne Enterprises, and an adaptation of Larry Brown's novel, The Rabbit Factory, for Ithaka Films.

John Updike in a Salon.com interview praised Jones as one of two writers of a younger generation he admired, and Updike included Jones' story, "I Want To Live!", in the anthology The Best American Short Stories of the Century.(less)

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