by F.x. Toole · VARIOS COL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466620826
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«Million Dollar Baby» is the short story collection by F.X. Toole, in paperback, with 304 pages, in Spanish.
It contains a novella and five stories about boxing, written from the author's experience. It shows characters who find in training and discipline a way out of hopelessness, in a world of fights, bets and fixed matches. Even so, the story that gives the volume its title vindicates honor and dignity.
Original title: «Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner». Translated by Jordi Vidal. Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2001) and the California Book Award (2000).
For fiction readers interested in boxing and characters at the edge, as well as in the story that inspired the movie by Clint Eastwood.
