Mister Pip
(2007, original release: 2006)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/JONES,L
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Dial Press, 2007
DESCRIPTION
256 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780385341066 (hardcover), 0385341067 (hardcover)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"First published by The Text Publishing Company, Austraila, 2006"--T.p. verso
On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, on which survival is a daily struggle, eccentric Mr. Watts, the only white man left after the other teachers flee, spends his day reading to the local children from Charles Dickens's classic Great Expectations
Winner of the 2008 Alex Award
780L
Man Booker Prize for Fiction Shortlist, 2007