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ISBN: 0060916559

ISBN13: 9780060916558

John Dollar

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Book Overview

From Marianne Wiggins, the award-winning author of Evidence of Things Unseen and Properties of Thirst delivers "a superb novel, hypnotic, disturbing, and artful...so good that most readers will devour it in one gulp" (The Washington Post Book World). Charlotte Lewes, a young Briton newly widowed by the Great War, departs for colonial Burma in 1917 to escape the ruins of her life. As a schoolteacher in Rangoon she is rejuvenated by the sensuous Oriental climate, and she meets John Dollar, a sailor who becomes her passionate love and whose ill-fated destiny inextricably binds her to him. On a festive seafaring expedition, the tightly knit British community confronts disaster in the shape of an earthquake and ensuing tidal wave. Swept overboard, Charlotte, John Dollar, and eight young girls who are Charlotte's pupils awake on a remote island beach. As they struggle to stay alive, their dependence on John overwhelms him, and an atmosphere of menace and doom builds, culminating in shocking and riveting scenes of both death and survival. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0060916559

ISBN13:9780060916558

Release Date:April 1990

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers

Length:224 Pages

Weight:0.52 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.4" x 8.0"

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