Rope Burns

F X Toole

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Vintage
15 April 2016

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories

'Ring magic is different from the magic of the theatre, because the curtain never comes down - because the blood in the ring is real blood, and the broken noses and the broken hearts are real, and sometimes they are broken forever. Boxing is the magic of men in combat, the magic of will, and skill, and pain, and the risking of everything so you can respect yourself for the rest of your life.'The hermetic world of boxing is notoriously difficult for outsiders to understand, though it has provided a source of fascination to numerous writers, including Norman Mailer, A.J. Liebling,

Joyce Carol Oates and Ernest Hemingway.

F.X. Toole is a dazzling new writer with a fresh and original voice, who has been a boxing professional for over twenty-five years. Rope Burns, a collection of short stories and a novella, is written from this unique perspective.

By: F X Toole
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 181g
ISBN: 9781784703851
ISBN 10: 1784703850
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 15 April 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

F. X. Toole is a professional boxing trainer and 'cut man'. He has also worked as a truck driver, a docker, a roustabout and a matador. He is the author of Rope Burns from which the story 'Million Dollar Baby' was made into a film starring Clint Eastwood.

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