Million Dollar Baby: Stories from the Corner - Couverture souple

Toole, F X

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 006081926X ISBN 13 : 9780060819262

Editeur : EccoPress, 2004

Synopsis

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).

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

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).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: EccoPress
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 006081926X
• ISBN 13: 9780060819262
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 254
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