Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner

Rope Burns
AuthorF.X. Toole
LanguageEnglish
PublisherEcco Press
ISBN978-0-06-019820-6

Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner is a 2000 collection of short fiction works by F.X. Toole.[1] The book is composed of five short stories and a novella.[2] F.X. Toole is the pen name of Jerry Boyd, who had much of his fiction writing rejected for publication, before one of the then unpublished short stories in Rope Burns came to the attention of Howard Junker.[3] One of the short stories in the book, "Million $$$ Baby", was later adapted to film as Million Dollar Baby.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Publishers Weekly - Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner". Publishers Weekly. September 4, 2000. Retrieved July 22, 2023.
  2. ^ Richard Sandomir (August 22, 2000). "A Trainer Turned Writer Rolls With the Punches". The New York Times. Retrieved July 22, 2023.
  3. ^ Jonathan Curiel (October 14, 2000). "Fighting Tooth and Nail / Cut man F.X. Toole, author of Rope Burns, struggled for years to become a writer". SFGATE. Retrieved July 22, 2023.
  4. ^ "Boxing Fiction is a winner from 1st-time author Toole". Orlando Sentinel. February 11, 2001. Retrieved July 22, 2023.