Divandarreh English Language Group

The Contender is the debut novel by American author and sports journalist Robert Lipsyte. It was published in 1967. The book\s plot evolves a black seventeen-year-old man named Alfred Brooks, a high school dropout living with Aunt Pearl and her 3 daughters in Harlem, New York City. He begins to train at a boxing club in the streets because he has a lot of issues, including his friend James is sent to jail and on probation after robbing the grocery store he