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John Dollar
A Novel
by Marianne Wiggins
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Charlotte Lewes's husband was killed in World War I, and she seeks a new life in Rangoon as a teacher. Then she meets John Dollar, and is stranded with him and eight of her young pupils on a menacing island.
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9780060160708,
Hardcover,
Harpercollins,
1989
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9780773753495,
Paperback,
Stoddart Pub,
1990
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9780060916558,
Paperback,
Harpercollins,
1990
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9780671039554,
Paperback,
Washington Square Pr,
1999
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Publisher Notes
A tidal wave carries Charlotte Lewis, a schoolteacher in colonial Burma, her sailor lover John Dollar, and eight of her female pupils to the Island of Our Outlawed Dreams, where a blood struggle for survival ensues. Reprint.
Media Reviews
"...What hangs on is not the horror of the story but the pleasure in the way it was told, and an abiding respect for a next-to-impossible task most elegantly accomplished."
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