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John Dollar
John Dollar
Author: Marianne Wiggins
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 f...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780140126754
ISBN-10: 0140126759
Publication Date: 2/1/1990
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Publisher: Penguin Putnam~trade
Book Type: Unknown Binding
Other Versions: Paperback, Hardcover
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This book is just over 200 pages, yet it took me 132 pages to finally figure out was going on. The languages and customs and lifestyle are so foreign tome, I found it very difficult to grasp. Reminded me of Animal Farm and Life of Pei.
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A widowed English teacher, eight young girls, and a sailor John Dollar are alone and threatened on a remote island off the coast of Burma in this fourth novel from Marianne Wiggins. Compelling, disturbing, and seductive, John Dollar is a haunting tale, a literacy tour de force, and a major work of fiction from a talented and provocative writer.
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Reminds me of "Life of Pi"


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