Million Dollar Baby

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).

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: F X Toole, F. X. Toole, F.X. Toole
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.01.2005
• EAN: 9780060819262
• ISBN: 978-0-06-081926-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 205 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: General, FICTION: Media Tie-In, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, FICTION: Anthologies (multiple authors), LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Speeches, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Medieval, FICTION: World Literature / American / 20th Century