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The contender /

Lipsyte, Robert.

The contender / Robert Lipsyte. - New York : Harper Collins Publishers, 1967. - 227 pages ; 17 cm.

A Harlem high school dropout escapes from a gang of punks into a boxing gym, where he learns that being a contender is hard and often discouraging work, but that you don't know anything until you try.

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Afro-Americans--Fiction.
Boxing--Fiction.