The Island Keeper - Brossura

Mazer, Harry

Brossura

ISBN 10: 044094774X ISBN 13: 9780440947745

Casa editrice: Dell Pub Co, 1991

Riassunto

A young woman runs away to a deserted island hoping to gain independence from her father only to find she is stranded on the island and her search for independence becomes a fight for survival

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L'autore:

Harry Mazer's The Last Mission is drawn closely from his experiences as a seventeen-year-old in the Army Air Corps. Like Jack, he was a Jewish boy from the Bronx full of fantasies about heroism, and like Jack, he became a waist gunner and never fired his guns. He remembers, "I was scared every time we flew....On our 26th mission we flew over Pilzen, Czechoslovakia, to bomb the Skoda Munitions Works. We missed our target, turned over the target again, and were hit. I saw Mike, who was our radio operator, frozen in the door of the radio room. He never made it out of the plane. Only three of us parachuted....No one in the plane lived." ( ALAN Review, Fall 1980)
 
Harry Mazer is the editor of Twelve Shots: Outstanding Short Stories About Guns, where twelve authors ex

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ng fat, rich, and miserable, Cleo Murphy runs away, desperate to prove herself.
Her destination is a deserted island her father owns in Canada. She is determined to stay and survive, through her supplies are scanty and she knows nothing about living out of doors.
As the summer months pass, Cleo does fend for herself, and finally she feels ready to face her family on the mainland. But by a cruel twist of fate her canoe is destroyed, and instead she must prove herself again and face the brutal Canadian winter.

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• Editore: Dell Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• ISBN 10: 044094774X
• ISBN 13: 9780440947745
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 176