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By By Pete Hamill, The Wall Street Journal, 908 words
Sep 8, 2000 |
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| In this remarkable collection of five stories and a
novella by F.X. Toole, the spirit of [Ernest Hemingway] lives
on. Mr. Toole draws on more than 20 years of experience as a
trainer and cutman to give us a fresh version of the Hemingway
world of "men without women." The details are different, but
the stoic Hemingway codes, now so out of fashion, are still
alive in Mr. Toole's gyms and arenas. Nobody speaks in these
stories about "grace under pressure." But most of the
characters believe in "heart" (the ability to endure pain in
order to inflict it), pride (not the same as vanity) and the
brooding, fatalistic possibility of defeat. Here, as in
Hemingway, one mark of the true gladiator is his willingness
to be carried out on his shield. |
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