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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 9780060160708, Hardcover, Harpercollins, 1989

$1.00 (Fine)

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9780773753495 9780773753495, Paperback, Stoddart Pub, 1990

$3.00 (Near Fine)

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9780060916558 9780060916558, Paperback, Harpercollins, 1990

$1.00 (Good Pages tanning.)

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9780671039554 9780671039554, Paperback, Washington Square Pr, 1999

$2.14 (Very good)

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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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