Lipsyte, Robert.

The contender / Robert Lipsyte. - 1st Harper Keypoint ed. - New York : Harper & Row, 1987. - 167 p. ; 18 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.

ISBN: 0064470393

LCCN: 67019623

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Boxing stories.
African Americans--Fiction.