John Dollar a Novel
- List Price: $15.99
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Pocket Books
- Publish date: 12/01/1999
Description:
The year is 1918. Young, newly widowed in World War I, and deeply unhappy, Charlotte Lewes decides to embark for Rangoon, hoping to escape the ruins of her old life. As a schoolteacher in colonial Burma, she comes alive again in the sensual climate of the Orient -- and meets John Dollar, a sailor, and the man with whom she share a passionate love. He is also the man whose own ill-fated destiny shapes the course of the novel.
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On a festive expedition to a distant island, the tightly-knit British community falls prey to disaster. During an earthquake and tidal wave one night, fathers and mothers and sons, servants and crew, all disappear from the British ships taking them to the island Charlotte, John Dollar, eight young girls who are Charlotte's pupils awake on beaches of the Island of Our Outlawed Dreams, where of menace and doom builds, culminating riveting scenes of death and survival.
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