The power of one
By: Bryce Courtenay.
Edition: Young readers' condensed ed.
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Self-confidence -- Fiction.; Conduct of life -- Fiction.; Boxing -- Fiction.; Prejudices -- Fiction.; Apartheid -- Fiction.; Prisons -- Fiction.; World War, 1939-1945 -- South Africa -- Fiction.; South Africa -- History -- 1909-1961 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Follows Peekay, a white British boy in South Africa during World War II, between the ages of five and eleven, as he survives an abusive boarding school and goes on to succeed in life and the boxing ring, with help from a chicken, a boxer, a pianist, black African prisoners, and many others.
Notes: 010 & up.