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A carregar... Sunday You Learn How to Box: A Novelpor Bil Wright
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Sunday You Learn How to Box tells the story of Louis Bowman, a bright and sensitive (read: “sissy”) teen who lives in the housing projects of suburban 1960s Connecticut with his abusive mother and stepfather. His mother suspects (fears?) Louis might be gay, so she sets up regular Sunday boxing lessons with his stepfather to both teach Louis how to “be a man” and to help him protect himself from the other project kids. Also, they’re a nice way to legitimize of the physical and psychological abuse Louis’s mother and stepfather already dole out. Louis faces other hardships, too, but Wright handles them skilfully and with a dry wit that takes some of the sting away. While this novel is certainly not sentimental, it does have a certain sweetness and wistfulness about it which made this novel hard to put down. I only wish there were more of it. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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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). Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Louis is different from other boys and suffers the consequences, being the target of bullying. He is also embarrassed that he responds to and enjoys the physical groping from a married man he encounters on several occasions while travelling the train to visit his grandfather. Not surprisingly he is having difficulties handling all his problems and so is sent for a course of regular psychiatric help.
I found this a lively and delicious story; Louis is a lovable character despite his often self imposed problems. While he establishes a warm relationship with his therapist, his real saviour comes in a most unlikely form, the flamboyant Ray Anthony Robinson, the local rogue, both feared and respected. It occurs shortly after Ben is given a new bike for Christmas and after his first real encounter with Ray when he grabbed and then rode off on the bike; much to Ben’s surprise he returned the bike safely. The next time Louis takes his bike out he is physically set upon by some local bullies, to his surprise rescue comes when Ray intervenes on his behalf. There begins a strange but most endearing relationship between the two boys that builds to a most heart-warming and triumphant climax. ( )