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F.X. Toole is the pen name of boxing trainer Jerry Boyd (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.
F.X. Toole fue el seudónimo escogido por el entrenador de boxeo Jerry Boyd para firmar su antología de relatos Rope Burns. Stories from the corner, de la que uno...
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.
2 de sept. de 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.
Toole consigue, con este brillante debut, acercarnos a la realidad íntima de los combates, donde los protagonistas logran evadirse de la desesperanza del mundo en el que habitan al incorporarse a la disciplina de la lucha.
That these two men, separated by thousands of miles, ethnicity and generations, will become the vehicle for one another’s redemption is inevitable, but Toole’s unsentimental prose and knack for creating tragic characters (whose sufferings, in turn, lead to plausible triumphs) overcome the ready-made plot.
Toole consigue, con este brillante debut, acercarnos a la realidad íntima de los combates, on de los protagonistas logran evadirse de la desesperanza del mundo en el que habitan al incorporarse a la disciplina de la lucha.
