Friday
Book Details
Author(s)
Tournier, Michel
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN / ASIN
0801855926
ISBN-13
9780801855924
Availability
In Stock.
Sales Rank
#845,527
Category
Fiction
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
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.
