Mutiny on the Bounty
by John Boyne
Mutiny on the Bounty
John Boyne |
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Read in June, 2008
An unusual choice of subject by the author of The Boy On The Striped Pyjamas, as it's such a familiar tale, but Boyne manages to put an original spin on it by casting Captain Bligh in the more sympathetic role and Fletcher Christian as the villain of the piece. (In the three filmed versions, it's always been the other way around). The 48 days spent adrift by the narrator (cabin boy John Jacob Turnstile) and his companions is a tour de force, because Boyne devotes one short chapter to each day an...more
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