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THE LIFE OF PI.
by Martel, Yann
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very near fine in a like dustjacket../like
- ISBN 10
- 0151008116
- ISBN 13
- 9780151008117
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About This Item
New York:: Harcourt, Inc.,, (2002.). Hardcover -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket... Later printing. Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize. Shortlisted for the Governor General Award and the Commonwealth Writer's Prize. "After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, only a single lifeboat remains. Its passengers consist of a Bengal tiger with a broken leg, a hyena, a zebra and Pi - a 16 year-old Indian boy." Although this was a surprise winner of the Booker, it became a controversial choice when accusations were published that Martel had stolen his book's premise from a 1981 novella, "Max and the Cats," by the Brazilian writer Moacyr Scliar. In the author's note at the beginning of this book, Martel himself gave credit to Scliar for the 'spark of life.' Nevertheless, despite the similarities of one of the basic premises - a shipwreck survivor in a boat with a wild cat - this is a very different book in spirit and theme than Scliar's novella. Illustrated endpapers. Basis for the film of the same name. 319 pp.
Synopsis
Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel written by Canadian author Yann Martel. In the story, the protagonist Piscine "Pi" Molitor Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He survives227 days after a shipwreck, while stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean. The novel was first published by Knopf Canada in September 2001, and the UK edition won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction the following year.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 67876
- Title
- THE LIFE OF PI.
- Author
- Martel, Yann
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket..
- Jacket Condition
- like
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0151008116
- ISBN 13
- 9780151008117
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Inc.,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (2002.)
- Keywords
- booker prize, movie tie in,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Canadian writers and history;
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