Sunday You Learn How to Box (Paperback)

Paperback. Fourteen-year-old Louis Bowman is in a boxing ring -- a housing project circa 1968 -- 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 clear-eyed unsentimentality. Louis Bowman, the engaging, young protagonist of this coming-of-age novel, is in the boxing ring both literally and metaphorically, fighting, as he says, "just to get to the end of the round." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.