Written by Robert Lipsyte
Drama in Harlem
Before you can be a champion, you have to be a contender.
Alfred Brooks is scared. He’s a highschool dropout and his grocery store job is leading nowhere. His best friend is sinking further and further into drug addiction. Some street kids are after him for something he didn’t even do. So Alfred begins going to Donatelli’s Gym, a boxing club in Harlem that has trained champions. There he learns it’s the effort, not the win, that makes the man — that last desperate struggle to get back on your feet when you thought you were down for the count.
Alfred Brooks is not a genius. And he’s bothered to street kids. But he has mind that he want to be strong. He’s a hustler. And that’s what I like about this book.
I think the only problem of this book is girls. It’s like so harlem. Round character must’ve have sexy engaged girl.
And I want to recommend this book to hungry boxers like Mrs.Caples, and people who gave up their life.
-Passion is the best-
