Description
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. Breathing life into vivid, compelling characters who radiate the fierce intensity of the worlds they inhabit, Million Dollar Baby “is not just fight fiction at its finest, it is excellent fiction, period” (Dan Rather).
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: F. X. Toole
Published: 01/05/2005
Publisher: Ecco Press
ISBN: 9780060819262
Pages: 235
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 0.64″ H x 8.16″ L x 5.32″ W
About the Author
Toole, F. X.: –
F. X. Toole was born in 1930. Having worked as a bullfighter, professional boxing “cut man,” taxi driver, and saloon keeper, Toole published his first book of fiction at age seventy. He died in 2002, before seeing his short story “Million Dollar Baby” become an Academy Award-winning film.
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