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139 pp.
| Random/Fickling |
April, 2005 |
TradeISBN 0-385-75054-4$15.95
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LibraryISBN 0-385-75055-2$17.99 Reissue (1982, Atheneum)
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YA
In a series of flashbacks, eighteen-year-old Flora recalls her childhood in a dreary boarding school in Borneo. In lyrical and almost sensuous prose, the heat, smells, and luxuriant growth of the island are described and provide a vivid background to a rather slender story line. The author has told a tale more imbued with mood and innuendo than with dramatic tension.