John Dollar - Softcover

Wiggins, Marianne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140126759 ISBN 13: 9780140126754

Publisher: Penguin, 1990

Synopsis

When Charlotte Lewes, newly widowed by World War I and deeply unhappy, decides to embark for Rangoon in 1918, she is looking to escape the ruins of her old life. She meets John Dollar, a sailor, the man with whom she will share a passionate love.

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Review:

"San Francisco Chronicle" Richly imaginative...pure adventure. "San Francisco Chronicle"Richly imaginative...pure adventure. "New York Newsday"At her best the incantatory Marianne Wiggins goes beyond magical to sheer demonic possession. "The Washington Post Book World"A superb novel, hypnotic, disturbing, and artful...so good that most readers will devour it in one gulp. "The New York Times Book Review"In making us see her characters' humanity, she also compels us to acknowledge our shared yearning and sense of loss. "London Sunday Times"Marianne Wiggins does not so much tell a story as make her reader live it.... She renews our sense of what prose fiction can be. "Booklist"Wiggins is one of those critically acclaimed authors whose books acquire passionate followings...who find passion to be a source of both salvation and gothic nightmare. "The Washington Post Book World"Marianne Wiggins dares to make fictions that stand in the face of heart-cracking circumstance, fictions that, in fact, resound with hearts shattering. "The New York Times"A powerful story that not only pulls you through to its final pages but also propels you back to the beginning again, where you find you want to follow her descent into hell a second time. "Los Angeles Times Book Review"Marianne Wiggins' power is disjunctive, disruptive; she pounds the atoms of discourse until they split and go radioactive....Wiggins writes with a feverish brilliance...close to prophetic brilliance. "The Washington Post Book World" A superb novel, hypnotic, disturbing, and artful...so good that most readers will devour it in one gulp. "Los Angeles Times Book Review" Marianne Wiggins' power is disjunctive, disruptive; she pounds the atoms of discourse until they split and go radioactive....Wiggins writes with a feverish brilliance...close to prophetic brilliance. "The New York Times" A powerful story that not only pulls you through to its final pages but also propels you back to the beginning again, where you find you want to follow her descent into hell a second time. "Booklist" Wiggins is one of those critically acclaimed authors whose books acquire passionate followings...who find passion to be a source of both salvation and gothic nightmare. "The Washington Post Book World" Marianne Wiggins dares to make fictions that stand in the face of heart-cracking circumstance, fictions that, in fact, resound with hearts shattering. "New York Newsday" At her best the incantatory Marianne Wiggins goes beyond magical to sheer demonic possession. "London Sunday Times" Marianne Wiggins does not so much tell a story as make her reader live it.... She renews our sense of what prose fiction can be. "The New York Times Book Review" In making us see her characters' humanity, she also compels us to acknowledge our shared yearning and sense of loss. The New York Times Book Review In making us see her characters' humanity, she also compels us to acknowledge our shared yearning and sense of loss. London Sunday Times Marianne Wiggins does not so much tell a story as make her reader live it.... She renews our sense of what prose fiction can be. Booklist Wiggins is one of those critically acclaimed authors whose books acquire passionate followings...who find passion to be a source of both salvation and gothic nightmare. The Washington Post Book World Marianne Wiggins dares to make fictions that stand in the face of heart-cracking circumstance, fictions that, in fact, resound with hearts shattering. Los Angeles Times Book Review Marianne Wiggins' power is disjunctive, disruptive; she pounds the atoms of discourse until they split and go radioactive....Wiggins writes with a feverish brilliance...close to prophetic brilliance. The New York Times A powerful story that not only pulls you through to its final pages but also propels you back to the beginning again, where you find you want to follow her descent into hell a second time. New York Newsday At her best the incantatory Marianne Wiggins goes beyond magical to sheer demonic possession. The Washington Post Book World A superb novel, hypnotic, disturbing, and artful...so good that most readers will devour it in one gulp. San Francisco Chronicle Richly imaginative...pure adventure. "The Washington Post Book World"Marianne Wiggins dares to make fictions that stand in the face of heart-cracking circumstance, fictions that, in fact, resound with hearts shattering. "Booklist"Wiggins is one of those critically acclaimed authors whose books acquire passionate followings...who find passion to be a source of both salvation and gothic nightmare. "London Sunday Times"Marianne Wiggins does not so much tell a story as make her reader live it.... She renews our sense of what prose fiction can be. "Los Angeles Times Book Review"Marianne Wiggins' power is disjunctive, disruptive; she pounds the atoms of discourse until they split and go radioactive....Wiggins writes with a feverish brilliance...close to prophetic brilliance. "The New York Times"A powerful story that not only pulls you through to its final pages but also propels you back to the beginning again, where you find you want to follow her descent into hell a second time. "The Washington Post Book World"A superb novel, hypnotic, disturbing, and artful...so good that most readers will devour it in one gulp. "New York Newsday"At her best the incantatory Marianne Wiggins goes beyond magical to sheer demonic possession. "San Francisco Chronicle"Richly imaginative...pure adventure.

From the Back Cover:

“A superb novel, hypnotic, disturbing and artful ... The writing throughout is masterly ... almost any sentence may be shot through with wonderful phrases bright as tracer bullets.”
WASHINGTON POST

“A strange surrealistic tale of shipwreck told in prose at once as dense and flowing as the sea itself ... a chilling book, beautifully written ... The descriptions of life on the island are as vivid as anything in the 'genre', the terrors depicted every bit as effective as those in 'Lord of the Flies'.
SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

“Marianne Wiggins’s novel, set in Burma in 1918, is not about the end of empire but about the end of hope, innocence, meaning and reason ... Wiggins does not so much tell a story as make her readers live it ... she renews our sense of what prose fiction can do.”
SUNDAY TIMES

“The events have at once a sharp reality and the elusiveness of dreams ... a glittering, violent and surreal tale ... Her fiction is a work of high ambition.”
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

“A powerful story that not only pulls you through to its final pages but also propels you back to the beginning again, where you find you want to follow her descent into hell a second time.”
NEW YORK TIMES

Also available in Flamingo: 'Eveless Eden'

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0140126759
• ISBN 13: 9780140126754
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240