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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's classic Great Expectations.
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Mister Pip, Sally Lloyd-Jones
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- Released
- 2007
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- Title
- Mister Pip
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Sally Lloyd-Jones
- Publisher
- The Dial Press
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0385341067
- ISBN13
- 9780385341066
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Adventure, Contemporary Fiction, Military Fiction, Wars, School, Literary Fiction, Adapted for Film, Memories, Civil War, Islands, Teachers, Reading, New Zealand, Metafiction, New Zealand Literature, Bougainville (Island)
- First published
- 2006
- Original title
- Mister Pip
- Rating
- 3.65 out of 5
- Description
- 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's classic Great Expectations.