Robinson
By: Muriel Spark.
Series: A New Directions classic; New Directions classics.
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Fiction; Islands -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "January Marlow, our unsentimental heroine, is one of three survivors out of twenty-nine souls when her plane crashes, blazing, on Robinson's island. Presumed dead for months, the three survivors must wait for the annual return of the pomegranate boat. Robinson, a determined loner, proves a fair if misanthropic host to his uninvited guests; he encourages January to keep a journal." "In Robinson, under the tropical glare and strange fogs of the tiny island, we find a volcano, a ping-pong playing cat, a dealer in occult as well as lucky charms, flying ants, sexual tension, a disappearance, blackmail, and - perhaps - murder."--Jacket.