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When she comes to teach English children in Rangoon, Burma, Charlotte recovers her sensual nature and experiences a reawakening of love with John Dollar, a sailor with an unknown past. But this novel is hardly a straightforward love story. How would you describe Marianne Wiggins' novel to a friend? What kind of a novel is John Dollar? A satire?
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Jan 1, 1989 · 3.58. 658 ratings124 reviews. Charlotte Lewes, a young Briton newly widowed by the Great War, departs for colonial Burma in 1917 to escape the ruins of her life. As a schoolteacher in Rangoon she is rejuvenated by the sensuous Oriental climate, and she meets John Dollar, a sailor who becomes her passionate love and whose ill-fated destiny ...
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1989: Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for John Dollar; 2003: Finalist for the National Book Award for Evidence of Things Unseen; 2004: Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Evidence of Things Unseen; Bibliography Novels. Babe, 1975; the story of a single mother. Went South, 1980.
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- Separate Checks (1984), John Dollar (1989), Evidence of Things Unseen (2003)
Jan 1, 1989 · She unexpectedly meets love again, in the person of John Dollar, a somewhat mysterious sea captain. A tragic and bloody set of circumstances leads to the girls and John Dollar being stranded together on an island, with no help in sight.
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John Dollar: A Novel. Marianne Wiggins. Harper & Row, 1990 - Fiction - 214 pages. The spellbinding bestseller that received overwhelming media attention and critical acclaim, now in paperback.
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As a schoolteacher in Rangoon she is rejuvenated by the sensuous Oriental climate, and she meets John Dollar, a sailor who becomes her passionate love and whose ill-fated destiny inextricably...
May 7, 1996 · English. Publisher. Flamingo. Publication date. May 7, 1996. Dimensions. 7.87 x 5.51 x 1.57 inches. ISBN-10. 0006550215. ISBN-13. 978-0006550211. See all details. The Amazon Book Review. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.
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