The Contender by Robert Lipsyte

190 pages first pub 1967 (editions)

fiction sports young adult reflective sad medium-paced
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This is a sports fiction novel that tells a story of Alfred Brooks, a seventeen-year-old high school drop-out, living in Harlem, finding his way in the world and in boxing. Alfred learns that getting to the top is not as important as how you get t...

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