00991cam a2200229 4500
94731499
TxAuBib
20150122120000.0
080411s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u
9780385341073
pbk.
$12.00
0385341075
pbk.
$12.00
TxAuBib
Jones, Lloyd,
1955-
Mister Pip /
Lloyd Jones.
New York :
Dial Press,
2008.
256 p. ;
19 cm.
Reprint. Originally published : Australia : Text Publishing Co., 2006.
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' classic Great Expectations.
20150122.
Books and reading
Fiction.
Storytelling
Fiction.