Jimmy Boyle (artist) was named as a financial donor of the Labour Party. The character Nicky Dryden in the 1999 film "The Debt Collector" is reportedly loosely based on Boyle. He lives between France and Morocco with his second wife, Kate Fenwick, a British actress. They married in Marrakech, Morocco on 27 October 2007. Jimmy Boyle (artist) James Boyle (born 17 May 1944) is a Scottish gangster and convicted murderer who became a sculptor and novelist after his release from prison. In 1967, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of another gangland figure, William "Babs" Rooney, but released after 14
The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction down this theoretical position, Kermode tracks the creation of new attempts to 'make sense of life' through literature. He focuses on modern literature but covers a range of authors including William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, William Butler Yeats, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, the French 'new novelists', William S. Burroughs, Samuel Beckett and Jean-Paul Sartre. In 2000 it was reissued with a new epilogue. Kermode's later work also continues similar trains of thought. On its publication, the book "caused considerable excitement among literary faculties in America". It is now considered important in the field of fiction theory. In a 1967 review