| John Dollar Contributor(s): Wiggins, Marianne (Author) |
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ISBN: 0671039555 ISBN-13: 9780671039554 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Wsp Contemporary Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 4.98" W x 8.48" (0.66 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wiggins, Marianne: - 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. |