Robert Crews

By Thomas Berger

Book Overview

In a modern Robinson Crusoe tale by the author of Little Big Man, Robert Crews, a middle-aged alcoholic, embarks on a mythic survival adventure when his plane crashes and he encounters Friday, running... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688119204
• ISBN13: 9780688119201
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

An engaging reworking of the Robinson Crusoe story

For those of us who have always been fascinated by the idea of being stranded somewhere and having to improvise and invent in order to survive, the classic Crusoe story. In this modern retelling,the reader is immediately engaged with the infuriating,yet likeable Crews as he faces a wilderness he is totally unprepared for.With no one to talk to, he is forced to converse with himself (and us), examining his past and coping with the intense present