Editorial Reviews
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"A fascinating, unusual novel... a remarkably heady French wine in the old English bottle... Tournier has attempted nothing less than an exploration of the soul of modern man." -- New York Times Book Review
"Like [Crusoe's island], Tournier's novel is unique, self-sufficient, imaginative, well worth exploring, and with a number of minor miracles to reveal." -- Time
"M. Tournier is a cultivated and disciplined writer, and his Robinson, the son of a Yorkshire draper, is most likable... [T]he castaway has that quaint and peculiarly English stolidity that seems to exist only in the imagination of the French." -- New Yorker
"Defoe's book is distinguished by an unawareness of the psychology of solitude; nothing happens. Michel Tournier, however, has placed his man in precisely the same situation of static impotence, and then proceeds to illustrate a personal development as passionate and variegated as anyone could wish." -- New Statesman
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"Friday is the latest and one of the best examples of the French genius for revisionism -- for ringing original variations on a traditional theme. It is also unique in that enterprise because it is so moving, so touching in its elegance, so simple in its art." -- Richard Howard
Friday
Friday,Michel Tournier,The Johns Hopkins University Press,0801855926,European - General,Fiction,Fiction - General,Literary,Robinsonades,Survival after airplane accide,Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.,Tournier, Michel - Prose & Criticism,History / United States / General,Modern fiction
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