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| Material Type: | Fiction, Juvenile audience, Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Bryce Courtenay |
| ISBN: | 0385732546 9780385732543 0385902743 9780385902748 |
| OCLC Number: | 56598682 |
| Target Audience: | 010 & up. |
| Description: | 291 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Bryce Courtenay. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
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.
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