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The Power Of One
by 
Bryce Courtenay
Humphrey Bower
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing
Subject(s):  Fiction
Literature
Language(s):  English

Format Information
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Lending period:   21 days
File size:   310070 KB
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ISBN:   9781741631395
Release date:   Jul 05, 2006

Description
Bryce Courtenay’s classic bestseller is superbly narrated by Humphrey Bower. First with your head and then with your heart ...

So says Hoppie Groenewald, boxing champion, to a seven-year-old boy who dreams of being the welterweight champion of the world. For the young Peekay, it is a piece of advice he will carry with him throughout life. Born in a South Africa divided by racism and hatred, this one small boy will come to lead all the tribes of Africa.Through enduring friendships with Hymie and Gideon, Peekay gains the strength he needs to win out. And in a final conflict with his childhood enemy, the Judge, Peekay will fight to the death for justice...

“It’s hard to imagine a reader delivering his audience so completely to a foreign locale as Humphrey Bower does in this coming-of-age novel based in South Africa.” — AudioFile Magazine

 
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Reviews
AudioFile Magazine...
"It’s hard to imagine a reader delivering his audience so completely to a foreign locale as Humphrey Bower does in this coming-of-age novel based in South Africa.”
 
About the Author
Bryce was born in 1933 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and has lived in Australia for over forty years. He is married with two sons. Bryce wrote his first book, the bestselling The Power of One, at the age of fifty-five. It has now sold nearly three million copies worldwide. He has had a long and successful advertising career and has won many local and international advertising awards. Bryce is the author of over a dozen bestselling books including Brother Fish, Tandia, April Fool's Day.
Digital Rights Information
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Burn to CD: Permitted
 
Transfer to device: Permitted
   Transfer to Apple® device: Permitted
 
Public performance: Not permitted
File-sharing: Not permitted
Peer-to-peer usage: Not permitted
 
All copies of this title, including those transferred to portable devices and other media, must be deleted/destroyed at the end of the lending period.