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EAN: 9781862309579
Format: Paperback
Published: 28 Jan 2010
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Synopsis
Keep it clean, fellas.
Fair fight.
Okay.
Do it.
Don't go down.
If you go down, get up.
The bell, the fists, the fight.
It begins, and the first round is death.
The second round is the coffin.
The third is the funeral.
The Wolfe brothers know how to fight - they've been fighting all their lives. Now there's more at stake than just winning.
What the critics say
Written with a spare, gritty authenticity, this is a compelling and refreshingly brief novel by the author of the bestselling The Book Thief.
- Julia Eccleshare, The Guardian
Originally published in Zusak's native Australia three years before the hugely successful The Book Thief hit these shores, Fighting Ruben Wolfe is a lithe and affecting short novel about two brothers who become lured into the seedy underbelly of an illegal boxing ring in order to make some money to help out their parents. With echoes of the vulnerable and questioning first person narrative of The Outsiders, this is a fiery and ruminative novel for young teenagers.
- Lindsey Stainer, The Bookseller
Gritty novella about tough lives in tough neighbourhoods at tough economic times. Short, sharp and punchy, it has moments of savage humour and pure pathos. There's poetry in every life - even when it's seeped in violence.
- bookbag.co.uk
An impressive and heartwarming story of fraternal and familial bonding.
- The Irish Times
The novel is […] a knockout
- The Irish Times