I’m looking for a book that touches on seedy characters, probably in a city back east, especially New York in the middle of the last century. Not really mob hits and gangster feuds, and no serious crimes. But maybe gambling in backrooms, smoke-filled rooms, ringside of a boxing match, press boxes at various sporting events, where lines between legitimate and illegitimate fee blurred.
Hopefully that time period could also show culture and the particular aesthetic better than something in the 90s or later, including showing different characters from different people groups, including Italian, Irish, Jewish, and whatever else may appear.
I‘m open to fiction or nonfiction and think there must be a nonfiction sports book that conveys a great deal of this. I also had high hopes for Kavalier and Clay, but I don’t love Chabon’s style.
by thesearcher22