John Dollar - A Novel

Charlotte Lewes embarks for Rangoon in 1918 to escape the ruins of her life. After meeting John Dollar, a sailor with whom she shares a passionate love, Dollar, Lewes, and eight of her female pupils are caught in a tidal wave that sweeps them onto an island and into an atmosphere of menace and doom.

About the author

Marianne Wiggins is the author of eight novels, including John Dollar and Evidence of Things Unseen, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. She has won a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the Heidinger Kafka Prize, and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. She lives in Venice, California. 

Product details

• Authors: Marianne Wiggins, Wiggins Marianne
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1999
• EAN: 9780671039554
• ISBN: 978-0-671-03955-4
• No. of pages: 214
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 227 g
• Series: WSP contemporary classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Adventure, FICTION / Thrillers / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Action & Adventure, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Adventure / action fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general