NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CLINT EASTWOOD, MORGAN FREEMAN AND HILARY SWANK
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 lives in Los Angeles.
It is visceral and violent; written in a rhythmic street language
that, in the great American tradition, manages to be both
uncompromising and elegiac
*Guardian*
The best boxing fiction since Leonard Gardner's Fat City. It's the
best boxing short fiction ever written. Rope Burns is a hymn to
ferocious longing and loss
*James Ellroy*
The vitality and rhythms of the language is part of what make F. X.
Toole's first collection of boxing stories such a stunning
debut
*Esquire*
Fiction that moves and exhilarates
*Independent on Sunday*
His first collection is not just outstanding as boxing literature
but must rank among the very best of short stories... Hemingway
would have eaten his heart out to have written these
*The Times*
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