Mister Pip / by Lloyd Jones.
by Jones, Lloyd.
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BookPublisher: New York : Dial Press, c2008, c2006Description: 256 p. ; 19 cm.ISBN: 9780385341073.Subject(s): Books and reading -- Fiction | Storytelling -- Fiction | Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) -- FictionGenre/Form: Bildungsromans.Summary: On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, on which survival is a daily struggle, eccentric Mr. Watts, the only white man left after the other teachers flee, spends his day reading to the local children from Charles Dickens' classic Great Expectations.
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On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, on which survival is a daily struggle, eccentric Mr. Watts, the only white man left after the other teachers flee, spends his day reading to the local children from Charles Dickens' classic Great Expectations.
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