John Dollar (Wsp Contemporary Classics) - Softcover

Wiggins, Marianne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671039555 ISBN 13: 9780671039554

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1999

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Publisher:

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

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0671039555
• ISBN 13: 9780671039554
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224