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A widowed English schoolteacher, eight young girls, and sailor John Dollar are alone and threatened on a remote island off the coast of Burma.
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A national bestseller, "a superb novel, hypnotic, disturbing and artful . . . so good that most readers will want to devour it in one gulp."--Washington Post Book World "Richly imaginative . . . pure adventure."--San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle
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Marianne Wiggins is the author of seven books of fiction including John Dollar and Evidence of Things Unseen. She has won an NEA grant, the Whiting Writers’ Award, and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and she was a National Book Award finalist in fiction for Evidence of Things Unseen.
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- PublisherSECKER & WARBURG. LONDON 1989
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0436570807
- ISBN 13 9780436570803
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 234 pages, colour illustrated dust jacket, front folder price clipped, the spine and either side of the backstrip section of the jacket have been faded by the sun. This book concerns the life of young, newly widowed by World War I, deeply unhappy, Charlotte Lewis. She decides to travel to Rangoon in 1918 to try to escape the chaos of her old life. There she becomes a schoolteacher in Burma and begins to feel at home imbibing the spirituality of Buddhist temples and monks and living in a house on stilts near the bay to the colonial compound. There she meets and falls passionately in love with a sailor, John Dollar, and the course of her life again changes drastically as she joins in his ill-fated destiny. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0436570807. ISBN/EAN: 9780436570803. Inventory No: 0209489. Seller Inventory # 0209489
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 234 pp. A memorable, hard-hitting and shocking novel set in Rangoon in 1918. Seller Inventory # 9427
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. SIGNED by author in black ink on full title page. Set in 1918, this book is about a shipwreck of one man, one woman, and a full boatload of children, their parents and their servant. Ships same or next business day. Head end of text block is lightly tanned. Dust jacket has minimal shelf and edge wear. Dust jacket protected in an archival cover. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 233 pages; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 52743
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