F X Toole: 2 books
Million Dollar Baby
Stories from the Corner
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The boxing stories that inspired the Oscar-winning Clint Eastwood film: a New York Times Notable Book from “a heavyweight fiction contender” (Publishers Weekly).
F. X. Toole knew boxing. Between bouts, he wrote, and two years before his death he published this collection of stories, giving...
Pound for Pound
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
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 where violence is the norm and success stories take on an almost mythic importance. It is the story of Dan Cooley, an aging,...