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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.
About The Author | FX Toole. El Faraón del Alfabeto. In my mid and late forties I came to boxing by choice and by chance. But I had already been there as far back as the mid thirties.
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 ...
Sep 2, 2002 · F. X. Toole was the pseudonym of Jerry Boyd (1930–2002), a boxing trainer and author whose work inspired the award-winning film Million Dollar Baby. In 1988, Boyd began writing about boxing, using the pseudonym F. X. Toole to keep his hobby secret from his colleagues in the boxing world.
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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.
Sep 5, 2000 · 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...
