The power of one / Bryce Courtenay.
Material type: SoundPublisher number: BAB 000001 | Bolinda Audio BooksPublication details: Tullamarine, Vic. : Bolinda Audio, p2000.Edition: Complete and unabridge edDescription: 18 sound discs (21 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inISBN:- 9781742015170
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult audio | Hāwera LibraryPlus Adult audio | Audio | COUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | I2202520 |
Read by Humphrey Bower ; introduced by Bryce Courtenay.
A novel about a small boy's triumph over cruelty and loneliness to become a famous boxer. Set in the turbulent 1940's in Southern Africa, it is an epic of survival in the best of dramatic traditions. Follows Peekay, a white British boy in South Africa during World War II, between the ages of five and eleven, as he survives an abusive boarding school and goes on to succeed in life and the boxing ring, with help from a chicken, a boxer, a pianist, black African prisoners, and many others.
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