Friday, or, The Other Island
305
Total Points
#597
- Pages
- 236
- Genres
- France Philosophy Retellings
Friday, winner of the 1967 Grand Prix du Roman of the Académie Française, is a sly, enchanting retelling of the legend of Robinson Crusoe by the man the New Yorker calls "France's best and probably best-known writer." Cast away on a tropical island, Michel Tournier's god-fearing Crusoe sets out to tame it, to remake it in the image of the civilization he has left behind. Alone and against...
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Apr 5th, 2017
I expected more. Took half the book to become interesting. Maybe true to the original??!!
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