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Friday

Name: Friday
Brand: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780801855924
Price: 71.99 AUD
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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9780801855924

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By Michel Tournier
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: May 14, 1997
Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 240

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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 incredible odds, he almost succeeds. Then a mulatto named Friday appears and teaches Robinson that there are, after all, better things in life than civilization.

""Defoe's book is distinguished by an unawareness of the psychology of solitude; nothing happens. Michel Tournier, however, has placed his man in precisely the same situation of static impotence, and then proceeds to illustrate a personal development as passionate and variegated as anyone could wish.""

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