Friday and Robinson

Description:

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.

subjects: Fiction,  Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks,  Shipwreck survival,  Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author),  Children's fiction,  French fiction,  JUV001000,  Action & Adventure,  Juvenile Fiction,  Survie après accidents d'avion, naufrages,  Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse,  Survie en milieu sauvage,  Roman pour la jeunesse,  Roman d'aventures,  Adventure stories,  Shipwrecks,  Survival,  Naufrages,  Romans,  Fiction, general,  Juvenile fiction

People: Michel Tournier