‘Rope Burns’ is a collection of short stories by F.X. Toole who, as well as authoring this book, has had a substantial career as a trainer of, and cut man to, professional boxers.
Perhaps most notably this collection contains the short story Million $$$ Baby, which was later dramatised in the film Million Dollar Baby, starring and directed by Clint Eastwood. Having read the story first I found it hard to believe that it would attract enough investment to realise the film on the big screen – I then saw the film and was completely dumbfounded as to how anyone thought it was a good idea. I, however, know nothing of the film industry, and the film probably did very well.
If it did do well at the box office it can’t be anything to do with the boxing, as the story is by far the weakest in the collection, but the book is worth getting to see just how well Toole can write.
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