- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Delta (Oct 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0385319525
- ISBN-13: 978-0385319522
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 2.5 x 21.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,964,309 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Wilson Lander suffers from the Dread, the constant feeling that something terrible is always lurking, and lives a life devoid of risk or excitement. That is, until he meets Cricket, a woman emblazoned with wild desire, a sailor ripened by the sea, and the prisoner of a hidden existence. Throwing caution to the wind for the first time in his life, Wilson decides to follow Cricket on a boat trip around the world.
But soon their adventure turns dangerous and Cricket's heart grows darker by the minute. As Wilson tries in vain to save Cricket from herself, he finds that the only person worth fighting for is himself.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The Pirate's Daughter was one of those books that I picked up and bought simply because I fell in love with the cover on sight. It's a deliciously good read- very bizarre and frequently surreal. I think that it's smoother and better realised than any of Girardi's other books, which, while incredibly imaginitive, lack the same kind of ironic humour that The Pirate's Daughter does. Reading this book always reminds me that just because I'm a adult doesn't mean that I shouldn't indulge myself in a good, old fashioned, rolicking adventure story.The book essentially tracks the travels of a man named Wilson Landers who is mired in the neverending grind of city life; stuck in the rigid cubby-hole of what is expected of him: to make money, settle down with a nice girl, have kids and live like every other lemming. Then, one day, he meets a woman who changes everything in a moment. Her name is Cricket, and she is both Wilson's savior and his very worst enemy. She convinces Wilson to drop everything and run away to sea with her on a sailboat bound for places Wilson has only known about in his dreams before. And so he goes.What he steps into is so strange and dangerous, it is scarcely believable. He discovers that the world is not simply grey and saccarine and plastic, but beautiful and ugly; filled with light, and consumed by darkness. Many might scoff and shut the book- but really, it's wonderful. If you've ever ached to do something completely irrational and stupid and fantastic, and never had the balls to actually go through with it this book is calling your name. Buy it right now. Trust me.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
An extremely creative tale.
29 Sep 1999
Format:Hardcover
The twists in the plot are so important that you should not read detailed reviews (like the Kirkus one on this web page)before reading The Pirate's Daughter. This book is full of surprising twists and turns. Very unpredictable. Unconventional. An incredibly creative work. I can't think of another book like it. Full of adventure, adventure moreover that puts you in moral dilemmas--very provoking and definitely not "escapism" or mere entertainment. It is seemingly an improbable tale--who believes in pirates these days?--but I actually recall news reports of piracy in the south seas even today. This may be a "guy" book--a male's fantasy of being conned/abducted by an irresistably sensual woman into a world-class adventure. On the other hand, maybe this could be a female fantasy too? I like the way characters in an episode in the beginning, in New York, tie in with events in Afria in the end of the book. Nothing is disconnected. The book is tight. The only thing about the book that made me uneasy was its characterization of West Africa which, having travelled there myself, seemed stereotypically negative and uninformed. There are many Africas, and this is definitely one of them (the civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone come to mind), but it's not the one I like to think about.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A good escape from the rat race!!
18 Jan 2006
Format:Hardcover
Don't listen to the bad reviews about this book ( good grief folks..it's just a story!!). The bad reviewers here don't give the writer enough credit..This book will hold you captive from the first page! Who cares if all the info. isn't correct (again..it's just a story folks!!) If you want a book that has adventure, mystery, romance and suspense you will like it..It was a violent in some places but I held out just because I had to find out what happened next! I gave it 4 stars because of the violence but it's worth checking out!!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
I hated this book . . . but I loved it at the same time
28 Feb 2006
Format:Hardcover
Maybe due to simple youth and inexperience, this book made me horribly sad. I cried for about an hour at the end. I felt especially bad for Cricket. She was a bad person, but it was the only life she had ever known, and she wanted to escape from it, but needed to wait so she could escape without looking back. I felt sad for Wilson too. I mean, he was the good guy and he did what he thought was right and it was right, obviously, but to just forget? It seems so sad.
Anyway, the writing style was pretty good, easy to follow, unlike some older classics that can't say anything straight out, and with a really clever blend of reality and fiction. The characters were believable, and though it was a really sad, brutal story, I got snapped at three times in one class today for surreptitiously picking up this book to read.
Anyway, the writing style was pretty good, easy to follow, unlike some older classics that can't say anything straight out, and with a really clever blend of reality and fiction. The characters were believable, and though it was a really sad, brutal story, I got snapped at three times in one class today for surreptitiously picking up this book to read.
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