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F.X. Toole is the pen name of boxing trainer Jerry Boyd [1] (1930 – September 2, 2002). Toole is most noted for writing the 2000 collection of short stories Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner, which were adapted into the Oscar -winning movie Million Dollar Baby in 2004.
ACCLAIMED BOOK OF SHORT STORIES, THAT WAS THE BASIS FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD WINNING MOVIE “MILLION DOLLAR BABY”. “ F.X. Toole is a writer to break the heart. [He] reads like one who has journeyed to Hades and back, bursting with the tales to tell of what he has seen.
Jan 1, 2006 · F.X. Toole. 3.95. 341 ratings45 reviews. Pound for Pound is a big novel in the truest sense of the word, a story of family, honor, perseverance, and forgiveness.
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It’s amazing it took so long, because Irish-born Toole, now living and working in Los Angeles, is a natural. His knowledge of the bizarre world of professional boxing is encyclopedic and utterly persuasive, his prose is as tight as a well-laced pair of gloves and his protagonists, in this collection of five stories and a novella, are ...
Jan 1, 2000 · This hard-hitting collection of powerful and moving tales based on the experiences of the late, great fight manager and cut man Jerry Boyd, who wrote under the pen name F.X. Toole, is the basis for the Oscar-winning motion picture starring Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman.
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Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner. F. X. Toole. HarperCollins, Sep 5, 2000 - Fiction - 256 pages. Seventy-year-old F.X. Toole has exploded onto the literary scene with this astonishing...
Following his remarkable fiction debut, Rope Burns, author F. X. Toole's Pound for Pound is a big, brawny novel of honor, perseverance, family, and forgiveness, set in towns...
