Punching Bag

Rex Ogle (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2023
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-1-324-05221-0 (ISBN)

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The companion to Rex Ogle’s award-winning Free Lunch (ISBN 978 1 324 01694 6) is a searing account of adolescence in a household torn by domestic violence

Punching Bag is the compelling true story of a high school career defined by poverty and punctuated by outbreaks of domestic abuse. Rex Ogle, who brilliantly mapped his experience of hunger in Free Lunch, here describes his struggle to survive; reflects on his complex, often paradoxical relationship with his passionate, fierce mother; and charts the trajectory of his stepfather’s anger. Hovering over Rex’s story is the talismanic presence of his unborn baby sister.

Through it all, Rex threads moments of grace and humour that act as beacons of light in the darkness. Compulsively readable, beautifully crafted and authentically told, Punching Bag is a remarkable memoir about one teenager’s cycle of violence, blame and attempts to forgive his parents—and himself.

Rex Ogle is the author of Free Lunch, winner of the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award; Punching Bag, a New York Public Library Best Book; Abuela Don’t Forget Me, finalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award; and Road Home. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Erscheinungsdatum	25.02.2023
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 211 mm
Gewicht	191 g
Themenwelt	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Geschichte / Politik
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
ISBN-10	1-324-05221-X / 132405221X
ISBN-13	978-1-324-05221-0 / 9781324052210
Zustand	Neuware