"Sunday You Learn How to Box": presents an unforgettable portrait of fourteen-year-old Louis Bowman in a boxing ring- a housing project circa 1968- fighting "just to get to the end of the round." Sharing the ring is his mother, Jeanette Stamps, a ferociously stubborn woman battling for her own dreams to be realized; his stepfather, Ben Stamps, the would-be savior, who becomes the sparring partner to them both; and the enigmatic Ray Anthony Robinson, the neighborhood "hoodlum" in purple polyester pants, who sets young Louis's heart spinning with the first stirrings of sexual longing. Blending quirky humor and clear-eyed unsentimentality, Bil Wright deftly evokes an unrelenting world with lyricism and passion.
- ISBN10 0684857952
- ISBN13 9780684857954
- Publish Date 4 February 2000
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Simon & Schuster
- Imprint Touchstone
- Edition Original ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 228
- Language English