Friday
By: Michel Tournier ; translated from the French by Norman Denny.
Contributors: Denny, Norman, 1901-
Edition: Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Friday, winner of the 1967 Grand Prix du Roman of the Academie Francaise, is a sly, enchanting retelling of the legend of Robinson Crusoe by the man the New Yorker calls "France's best and probably best-known writer." Cast away on a tropical island, Michel Tournier's god-fearing Crusoe sets out to tame it, to remake it in the image of the civilization he has left behind. Alone and against incredible odds, he almost succeeds.

Then a mulatto named Friday appears and teaches Robinson that there are, after all, better things in life than civilization.