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Mister Pip.(Brief article)(Book review)
In the midst of a savage civil war, an adolescent girl on the remote island of Bougainville, "where the most unspeakable things happened without once raising the ire of the outside world," is engrossed by the struggle between art, in the form of her eccentric white teacher's reading of "Great Expectations," and religion, represented by her mother's "beloved pidgin Bible." It's not much of a contest--Matilda's heart is instantly captured by Pip--but it precipitates a violent denouement that leads to ...
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