Nuni / John Howard Griffin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffin, John Howard, 1920-1980.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pacific Island fiction (English).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Place of Publication:

San Antonion, Tex. : Wings Press : Distributed by Independent Publishers Group, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div><div>After John Howard Griffin's escape from Nazi-occupied France, he was shipped to the South Pacific, where he was stationed as an isolated observer in the Solomon Islands. That experience led to his second novel, <I>Nuni</I> (1956). As in his first novel, <I>The Devil Rides Outside</I>, an American professor is confronted by an alien reality. In <I>Nuni</I>, that reality is a ""primitive,"" almost Neolithic society. Yet, the professor's intellectual accomplishments are useless here, his place in both family and civilized society meaningless. He learns to cope, not so much in terms of s

Contents:

Front Cover; Nuni; Copyright Page; book one nuni; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Chapter 17; book two vanua; Chapter 18; Chapter 19; Chapter 20; Chapter 21; Chapter 22; Chapter 23; Chapter 24; Chapter 25; Chapter 26; Chapter 27; Chapter 28; Chapter 29; Chapter 30; Chapter 31; Chapter 32; Chapter 33; Critical Praise for Nuni; Back Cover

Notes:

Reprint of the 1956 ed. published by Houghton Mifflin.

ISBN:

1-60940-146-8

OCLC:

700697457