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Ecco
August 2006
On Sale: August 1, 2006
Featuring: Chicky Garza; Dan Cooley
394 pages
ISBN: 006088133X
EAN: 9780060881337
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Pound for Pound is a big novel in the truest sense of
the word, a story of family, honor, perseverance, and
forgiveness. Set in towns where violence is the norm and
success stories take on an almost mythic importance, it
tells of grand-fathers and grandsons -- older men for whom
life has not been easy and the young men who look to them
for guidance -- and reveals the transformative power of that
relationship. Dan Cooley, an aging but legendary Los Angeles
trainer, takes on a troubled young fighter named Chicky
Garza, hungry to make a name for himself in the San Antonio
boxing circuit, which is rife with crime and corruption. The
bond between them grows more powerful than the obstacles
they face, ultimately reviving in each man the courage it
takes to triumph both in and out of the ring. This
masterful, posthumous novel follows Toole's remarkable
fiction debut, Rope Burns (recently published in
paperback as Million Dollar Baby), which earned
comparisons to Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and Frank
McCourt, and which became an Academy Award-winning film four
years after publication. As James Ellroy says in the
foreword, "F. X. Toole did not live to visit the set or hug
the stars at the premiere. The rumor was true. He had a bum
ticker." It is a tragedy that the world will not hear more
from F. X. Toole, but Pound for Pound is a novel that
any writer would be proud to leave behind, marking his place
in the world of letters.
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