The cockfighter : a novel / by Frank Manley. c1998.

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The cockfighter : a novel / by Frank Manley. c1998.

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A boy who always wanted a rooster for a pet is given a $4,000 cock by his father, but not for petting, for fighting. As the bird's official handler at cockfights, the boy is torn between the violent job and love for the animal, a dilemma he will resolve in a dramatic way. A first novel.

239 p. ; 28 cm.

North Carolina State University, NCSU Libraries

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North Carolina State University, NCSU Libraries

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Manley, Frank P.

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Frank Manley, poet, playwright, and novelist, was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania on November 13, 1930 to Kathryn L. Needham and Aloysius F. Manley. Manley earned a bachelor's degree (1952) and master's degree (1953) from Emory University in Atlanta. After receiving his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1959, Manley taught at Yale University until 1964. He then returned to Atlanta, and became an associate professor of English at Emory in 1964. He was named Charles Howard Candler Professor of Renaissanc...