Life Of Pi

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Publisher Place: Edinburgh
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: Reprint

Description: 334 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. After A Shipwreck, The Only Survivor Is A Sixteen Year Old Boy Named Pi, A Zebra With A Broken Leg, A Hyena, An Orang-utan-and A 450 Pound Royal Bengal Tiger.

Publishers Description: NOW ON BROADWAYThe international bestseller and modern classic of adventure, survival, and the power of storytelling is now an award-winning play. "A story to make you believe in the soul-sustaining power of fiction."--Los Angeles Times Book Review After the sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a wounded zebra, an orangutan--and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger.Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi Patel, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with the tiger, Richard Parker, for 227 days while lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional--but is it more trueLife of Pi is at once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of survival that explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction. Its a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God.

ISBN: 9780857865533