Million dollar baby : stories from the corner /
Toole, F. X., 1930-2002.
Million dollar baby : stories from the corner / F.X. Toole. - New York : HarperCollins, ©2005. - 235 pages ; 21 cm
Originally published in as Rope burns. New York : Ecco, ©2000.
Member of the fancy : an introduction -- The monkey look -- Black Jew -- Million dollar baby -- Fightin in Philly -- Frozen water -- Rope burns -- Between rounds : an acknowledgment.
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 now the basis for a major 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).
006081926X 9780060819262 0060846577 9780060846572
2023552696
Boxers (Sports)--Fiction.
Boxing matches--Fiction.
Short stories.
Boxeurs--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Boxe--Matchs--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Boxers (Sports)--Fiction.
Boxing matches--Fiction.
Boxers (Sports)
Boxing matches.
Fictional Work
Fiction.
Short stories.
Fiction.
Romans.
PS3570.O438 / R67 2005
813/.54
Million dollar baby : stories from the corner / F.X. Toole. - New York : HarperCollins, ©2005. - 235 pages ; 21 cm
Originally published in as Rope burns. New York : Ecco, ©2000.
Member of the fancy : an introduction -- The monkey look -- Black Jew -- Million dollar baby -- Fightin in Philly -- Frozen water -- Rope burns -- Between rounds : an acknowledgment.
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 now the basis for a major 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).
006081926X 9780060819262 0060846577 9780060846572
2023552696
Boxers (Sports)--Fiction.
Boxing matches--Fiction.
Short stories.
Boxeurs--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Boxe--Matchs--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Boxers (Sports)--Fiction.
Boxing matches--Fiction.
Boxers (Sports)
Boxing matches.
Fictional Work
Fiction.
Short stories.
Fiction.
Romans.
PS3570.O438 / R67 2005
813/.54