Life of Pi : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 0739377957 (lg. print) :
- ISBN: 9780739377956 (lg. print) :
- Physical Description: 480 p. (large print) ; 20 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Large Print, 2010.
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Summary, etc.: | Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company. |
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Genre: | Adventure fiction. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Bethel Public Library | LARGETYPE F MARTEL (Text) | 34030128968432 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
Wolcott Public Library | LP MARTEL, Y. LI (Text) | 34031115002623 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
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Summary
Life of Pi
The Jungle Book meets Not Wanted On the Voyage in a triumph of storytelling and originality: a novel, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God. Piscine Molitor Patel, nicknamed Pi, lives in Pondicherry, India, where his family runs a zoo. Little Pi is a great reader. He devours books on Hinduism, Christianity and Islam, and to the surprise of his secular parents, becomes devoted to all three religions. When the parents decide to emigrate to Canada, the family boards a cargo ship with many of the animals that are going to new zoological homes in North America, and bravely sets sail for the New World. Alas, the ship sinks. A solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the surface of the wild blue Pacific. In it are five survivors: Pi, a hyena, a zebra, an orang-utan and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. With intelligence, daring and inexpressible fear, Pi manages to keep his wits about him as the animals begin to assert their places in the foodchain; it is the tiger, Richard Parker, with whom he must develop an inviolable understanding. Yann Martel's Life of Pi is a transformative novel: a book to delight in, to talk about and treasure. It will convince the most jaded among us -- and remind the rest -- that something grander is afoot in our lives than we may have realized. From the Hardcover edition.