Sunday You Learn How to Box

Bil Wright

• 27 augustus 2013
• 9781442474727

Samenvatting:

Strength and resilience fuel an urban teen&;s fight for survival in this acclaimed novel from Bil Wright that &;delivers a knock-out punch&; (Venus Magazine).

Fourteen-year-old Louis Bowman lives in a boxing ring&;a housing project circa 1968&;and is fighting &;just to get to the end of the round.&; Sharing the ring is his mother, Jeanette Stamps, a ferociously stubborn woman battling for her own dreams to be realized; his stepfather, Ben Stamps, the would-be savior, who becomes the sparring partner to them both; and the enigmatic Ray Anthony Robinson, the neighborhood &;hoodlum&; in purple polyester pants, who sets young Louis&;s heart spinning with the first stirrings of sexual longing.

Bil Wright deftly evokes an unrelenting world with quirky humor and a clear-eyed perspective in this &;deeply felt coming-of-age novel&; that &;reads like the best of memoirs&; (School Library Journal).