Friday , winner of the 1967 Grand Prix du Roman of the Acad mie Fran aise, is a sly, enchanting retelling of the legend of Robinson Crusoe by the man the New Yorker calls France\'s best and probably best-known writer.
Then a mulatto named Friday appears and teaches Robin.
Alone and against incredible odds, he almost succeeds.
Cast away on a tropical island, Michel Tournier\'s god-fearing Crusoe sets out to tame it, to remake it in the image of the civilization he has left behind.
Friday , winner of the 1967 Grand Prix du Roman of the Acad mie Fran aise, is a sly, enchanting retelling of the legend of Robinson Crusoe by the man the New Yorker calls France\'s best and probably best-known writer