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Jan 1, 1998 · No stranger to the injustice of racial hatred, five-year-old Peekay learns the hard way the first secret of survival and self-preservation - the power of one. An encounter with amateur boxer Hoppie Groenewald inspires in Peekay a fiery ambition - to be welterweight champion of the world.
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Bryce Courtenay. Study Guide. The Power of One Full Book Summary. Previous Next. The novel traces the adventures of Peekay, an English-speaking South African boy, from age five to age seventeen, from the year 1939 to 1951.
About The Power of One “The Power of One has everything: suspense, the exotic, violence; mysticism, psychology and magic; schoolboy adventures, drama.” –The New York Times “Unabashedly uplifting . . . asserts forcefully what all of us would like to believe: that the individual, armed with the spirit of independence–‘the power of one ...
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Sep 29, 1996 · The Power of One: A Novel. Bryce Courtenay. Random House Publishing Group, Sep 29, 1996 - Fiction - 544 pages. “The Power of One has everything: suspense, the exotic, violence;...
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Mar 30, 2011 · The Power of One. Bryce Courtenay. Random House Children's Books, Mar 30, 2011 - Young Adult Fiction - 384 pages. In 1939, hatred took root in South Africa, where the seeds of apartheid...
Overview. The Power of One, a novel by Bryce Courtenay, was first published in 1989 and follows the life of Peekay, a young boy growing up in apartheid-era South Africa. Against a backdrop of racial tension, Peekay overcomes personal hardships and discovers his own strength through boxing.
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