| #439228 in Books | 2000-09-05 | 2000-09-05 | Format: Deckle Edge | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x.95 x6.13l, | File Name: 0060198206 | 256 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| One of the best books of short-stories that I have read|By Johnny Handsome|Great book. Great writing. I bought 3 paperbacks of this book for gifts after I read this on my Kindle. Every one of these stories can stand alone. The story that inspired the movie "Million Dollar Baby" was good, but many of the other stories are better. If you like boxing, you have to read these|From Publishers Weekly|The story of the 69-year-old author of this astonishing first fiction collection is a salutary one; he wrote between gigs tending boxers in their corners as a "cut man" (who stanches the blood flow and allows fights to continue), finally
Seventy-year-old F.X. Toole has exploded onto the literary scene with this astonishing first collection of stories drawn from his own experiences in boxing. In these powerful and moving tales, he reveals a complex web of athletes, trainers, and promoters and their extended families, all players in an unforgiving business where victory, like defeat, comes at a dark and painful price.
F. X. Toole breathes life into vivid, compelling characters who radiate the fie...
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.ROPE BURNS: Stories from the Corner | F. X. Toole. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
