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Life of Pi: a novel
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Published:
Orlando, Florida : Harcourt, 2003, ©2001.
Format:
Book
Edition:
First Harvest edition.
Physical Desc:
xii, 326 pages ; 21 cm
Rating:
Young Adult.
Status:
Description

Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional-but is it more true? Life of Pi is at once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of survival that explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction. It's a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God. Publisher Fact Sheet. A fabulist novel that combines the delight of Kipling's Just So Stories with the metaphysical adventure of Jonah and the Whale.

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Language:
English
ISBN:
0156027321, 9780156027328, 9780151008117, 0151008116, 0613599071, 9780613599078
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 5.7, 16 Points
Lexile measure:
830

Notes

General Note
"A Harvest book."
General Note
Includes reading group guide (p.323-326).
Description
Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional-but is it more true? Life of Pi is at once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of survival that explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction. It's a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God. Publisher Fact Sheet. A fabulist novel that combines the delight of Kipling's Just So Stories with the metaphysical adventure of Jonah and the Whale.
Target Audience
Young Adult.
Target Audience
830,Lexile.
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning,UG,5.7,16.
Study Program Information
Reading Counts!,7.2.
Awards
Man Booker Prize, 2002.
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APA Citation (style guide)

Martel, Y. (20032001). Life of Pi: a novel. First Harvest edition. Orlando, Florida, Harcourt.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Martel, Yann. 20032001. Life of Pi: A Novel. Orlando, Florida, Harcourt.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Martel, Yann, Life of Pi: A Novel. Orlando, Florida, Harcourt, 20032001.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Martel, Yann. Life of Pi: A Novel. First Harvest edition. Orlando, Florida, Harcourt, 20032001.

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