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John Dollar
a novel
By Wiggins, Marianne
- ISBN
- 978-0-06016-070-8
- Publisher
- New York : Harper & Row, c1989.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 1989
YA Described by the author as a "female Lord of the Flies," this book is every bit as chilling and brutal as Golding's. It is around 1919 and Charlotte, a young widow, takes on the job of tutoring the daughters of British subjects in Burma. She enters into a passionate affair with John Dollar, captain of a small ship. Soon a foreshadowing of the savagery to come occu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
