Ship Breaker

Informationen zum Autor Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl was one of the most celebrated SF debuts of all time, winning both the Hugo and Nebula awards. Following a number of award-winning novels for younger readers, The Water Knife marks his return to adult fiction. He is a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist, and lives in Colorado with his wife and son. Klappentext WELCOME TO A WORLD WHERE OIL IS SCARCE. BUT LOYALTY IS SCARCER. Nailer's time is running out. He's getting too big for his work - stripping copper wire from old oil tankers - and once he's off th crew he's on his own, stuck in a shack on the beach with no food, no money and no way of earning his keep. He has one last chance. The thing all crew members dream about, a lucky strike, has hit in the shape of a clipper ship beached during the last hurricane. If he can hold off the rest of the scavengers long enough to get the oil out, he might just have a future. But oil's not the only thing on the ship. And what Nailer finds is going to change his life for ever. Award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers a thrilling, fast-paced adventure set in a vivid and raw, uncertain future. Zusammenfassung Award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers a thrilling, fast-paced adventure set in a vivid and raw, uncertain future.

Product details

• Authors: Paolo Bacigalupi, Bacigalupi Paolo
• Publisher: Atom Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.05.2012
• EAN: 9781907411106
• ISBN: 978-1-907411-10-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 195 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Atom; Ship Breaker; Ship Breaker
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / General, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories