Friday, or, The Other Island
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Availability via OpenLibrary.
Taste threads
What this title is working with
- Faith and doubt
- Fairy tale
- Island
- Cut off from the world
- Against nature
- Finding yourself
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How cross-media recommendations work →Synopsis
Friday, winner of the 1967 Grand Prix du Roman of the Academie Francaise, 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.
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