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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Library Binding
Publisher: Econo-Clad Books
ISBN: 0833554255
Release Date: Jan 1, 1998
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 4 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
This novel is set in South Africa during and after the Second World War. "Mr. Courtenay's hero is Peekay, a tormented schoolboy from an English-speaking family. . . . Young Peekay, who narrates the story, controls his fear ofassorted Boer bullies and dreams of becoming the world welterweight boxing champion, an ambition that survives . . . his passage into early adulthood. Over the years, Peekay rejects the influence of his fundamentalist mother but accepts lessons in life from a scholarly German musician and horticulturist knownas Doc and a sterling Jewish fellow whom he meets when he's sent to boarding school in Johannesburg." (N Y Times Book Rev)
| | | | From The Publisher
"Unabashedly uplifting."
THE CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER
Set in a world torn apart, where man enslaves his fellow man and freedom remains elusive, THE POWER OF ONE is the moving story of one young man's search for the love that binds friends, the passion that binds lovers, and the realization that it takes only one to change the world. A weak and friendless boy growing up in South Africa during World War II, Peekay turns to two older men, one black and one white, to show him how to find the courage to dream, to succeed, to triumph over a world when all seems lost, and to inspire him to summon up the most irrersistible force of all: the Power of One.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 4 Average Rating:
One of the All-time best
-- A reviewer, February 20, 2002
Also Recommended: Native Son
Incredible
-- Matthew, I, June 22, 2001
The Best!!
-- Melissa, February 25, 2002
Must read for all! Should be mandatory in ALL school curricula!
-- Paul, Statesboro, GA, a university educator, August 9, 2002
Also Recommended: The Human Stain
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| | | | | | Keywords
Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9), Fiction - Historical, Fiction, Historical - General, Action & Adventure, South Africa, Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, Children, South Africa, Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, Children
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