291 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 2005 by Delacorte Press.
The power of one
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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.
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.