The Power Of One - Softcover

Courtenay, Bryce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140272917 ISBN 13: 9780140272918

Publisher: Penguin, 1998

Synopsis

No stranger to the injustice of racial hatred in 1940s South Africa, five-year-old Peekay learns the hard way the first secret of survival and self-preservation: the power of one. For Peekay is the only English schoolboy at the Afrikaans boarding-school where he crawls uncomprehending from the bullying fists of his poisonous and imaginative classmates. A happier encounter with amateur boxer Hoppie Groenewald inspires in Peekay a fiery ambition - to be welterweight champion of the world. This is a spellbinding story of cruelty and sadness, love and faith, filled with unforgettable characters, and told with great compassion and humour by international bestselling author Bryce Courtenay.

About this title

About the Author:

Bryce Courtenay is the bestselling author of The Power of One, Tandia, April Fool's Day, The Potato Factory, Tommo & Hawk, Solomon's Song, Jessica, A Recipe for Dreaming, The Family Frying Pan, The Night Country, Smoky Joe's Cafe, Four Fires, Matthew Flinders' Cat, Brother Fish, Whitethorn, Sylvia, The Persimmon Tree, Fishing for Stars, The Story of Danny Dunn, Fortune Cookie and Jack of Diamonds.
Bryce Courtenay AM passed away in November 2012, aged seventy-nine, at his home in Canberra.

Synopsis:

No stranger to the injustice of racial hatred, five-year-old Peekay learns the hard way the first secret of survival and self-preservation - the power of one. An encounter with amateur boxer Hoppie Groenewald inspires in Peekay a fiery ambition - to be welterweight champion of the world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0140272917
• ISBN 13: 9780140272918
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 640