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Lucy Irvine
Hardcover | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 3.74 | 631 Users | 61 Reviews
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| Title | : | Castaway |
| Author | : | Lucy Irvine |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | March 1st 1984 by Random House Inc (first published 1983) |
| Categories | : | Travel. Nonfiction. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir. Adventure. Cultural. Australia. Survival |
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'Writer seeks "wife" for a year on tropical island.'The opportunity to escape from it all was irresistible. Lucy Irvine answered the advertisement -- and found herself alone on a remote desert island with a 'husband' she hardly knew.
Lucy Irvine fell in love with the seductive, if cruel, beauty of that untouched Eden, whose power to enslave and enchant her never slackened throughout the whole of her amazing adventure.
Uncompromisingly candid and sometimes shocking, Castaway is her compulsively readable account of a desert island dream which threatened to turn into a nightmare of illness, thirst and personal antipathy.
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| Original Title: | Castaway |
| ISBN: | 0394535421 (ISBN13: 9780394535425) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.74 From 631 Users | 61 ReviewsAssessment Containing Books Castaway
(Contains spoilers) At first I couldn't put this book down. I love tales of survival and this started off brilliantly. I enjoyed it even though Lucy and G had made the choice to try survive on a desert island for a year. Irvine's descriptions are fresh and evocative and I was hooked until the story stopped being about survival and life on Tuin and instead became more about Lucy and G's relationship with the Islands near by; how they would leave Tuin to spend time on Badu, take part inIf you still daydream about the drama and romance of "roughing it" on a desert island with a complete stranger who isn't Clive Owen or at least George Clooney, read this. Not to be confused with a very trite movie starring a very trite male star, this is a true story. They become castaways on purpose, when Lucy Irvine answers a newspaper ad looking for a companion for an "adventure." This adventure consists of living on a desert island with a total stranger, in hopes of eventual romance. Well,
Amazing book... hard to read, harder to put down. I found this in a second-hand bookstore, and naturally assumed it was the basis of the Tom Hanks movie. Not. Very much, not. The other reviews tell the story pretty well, so I'll mention some other things. Gerald did go on to write his book,The Islanders, but it was not the success her book was, and to be honest, halfway through Castaway it's pretty clear that he simply does not have the urge to write or anything else. In fact, you wonder if he
Well. What an interesting book. This is the true story of two strangers spending a year on an island in 1981-1982. Lucy Irvine answers an ad to be a "wife" for a year with a man who wants to spend a year on a deserted island and then write a book about it. It is not clear whether the expectation of sex was set forth ahead of time; however, when they find an island (Tuin, in the Torres Straits) the government will not allow them to live there unless they are legally married. Once on the island
Good story. As a male, I was very intrigued by the diaretic voice of such an educated woman going through this experience of island living for a year. I really do want to eventually get to her counterparts books.On the break of absintence from sex after weeks on the island, she says she could not believe how much she held her counterparts happiness in her own hands.
I've taken away my first review as it was all so long ago. But I always had problems with this book as it simply had so many untruths. It was a short year and many people were highly amused (and otherwise) at the complete ignorance of these two who arrived with no cultural awareness or practicality and relied heavily on help almost immediately. It could have still been a good story and experience to tell without it trying to pretend something it was not I think it's great she wrote the book, I
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