01988cam a2200373u 4500 55089653 OCoLC 20190501230609.0 ta 051215s2001 flu 000 f eng d 0156030209 (pbk.) 3.95 9780156030205 APL APL OCLCQ IHI XY4 BAKER Y7T po----- Martel, Yann. Life of Pi : a novel Yann Martel. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2001. 401p.3.95 18 cm. "A Harvest book." The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. 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 while 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? Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. Fiction. Human-animal relationships Fiction. Storytelling Fiction. Teenage boys Fiction. Ocean travel Fiction. Zoo animals Fiction. Orphans Fiction. Tigers Fiction. Pacific Ocean Fiction. Psychological fiction. Adventure fiction. gsafd 45 22559 22559 0 0 ABELJ abelj YA 2017-01-18 0 YA MART 25870 2017-01-18 3.95 2017-01-18 BOOK