Cet auteur explore la dure réalité du monde de la boxe avec une empathie et une authenticité incroyables. Sa prose pénètre profondément dans la psychologie de ses personnages, révélant leurs luttes intérieures, leurs espoirs et leurs déceptions. À travers un langage brut et percutant, il capture l'essence du sport et de l'esprit humain, créant des œuvres aussi brutales que poignantes.
" Million Dollar Baby n'est pas seulement une histoire de boxe. Plutôt celle d'un rêve. En fait, c'est surtout une histoire d'amour. La boxe n'est qu'une toile de fond. Quand je l'ai lu, je me suis dit que, d'une façon ou d'une autre, je ferais le film. " Clint Eastwood. La rencontre entre F.X. Toole et Clint Eastwood relève du coup de foudre. Et du coup de génie de la part du réalisateur qui a su imposer aux studios son adaptation d'un livre salué par James Ellroy, Joyce Carol Oates et les critiques du monde entier. Encensé par la presse américaine, Million Dollar Baby est un chef-d'œuvre.
Dan Cooley has buried his beloved wife of 40 years and all of his children. The responsibility of single-handedly raising Tim Pat, his only grandson, is the one thing strong enough to rescue him from loneliness and despair. When Dan, a legendary boxing trainer, schools his eight-year-old grandson in 'the sweet science', he sees a natural athlete emerge, the possibility of an Olympic medal and the validation of a sport to which Dan has given his greatest gifts. When a cruel twist of fate intrudes on his plans, Dan is plunged into the blackest of depressions. Meanwhile, Eloy Garza, a has-been fighter battling his own demons in the shape of a morphine bottle, struggles to prevent his grandson, Chicky, from being taken in by the crime, drugs and corrupt trainers of San Antonio's boxing circuit. Without admitting that he once met Dan Cooley in the ring - in a fight that ended both men's careers and left them haunted by their shortcomings - Eloy sends Chicky in search of the gifted trainer and cut man, knowing that Chicky's only chance at greatness lies far beyond Eloy's meagre reach.Set in towns where violence is the norm and success stories take on an almost mythic importance, POUND FOR POUND is an old-fashioned novel with a heart, peopled with unforgettable characters - bloody but unbowed - who ultimately find solace in one another.
'Ring magic is different from the magic of the theatre, because the curtain
never comes down - because the blood in the ring is real blood, and the broken
noses and the broken hearts are real, and sometimes they are broken forever.
