TY - BOOK AU - Martel,Yann AU - Vickers,Salley TI - Life of Pi: a novel SN - 9780857865533 (paperback) U1 - 813.6 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Canongate KW - Tiger KW - Fiction KW - Orphans KW - fast KW - Human-animal relationships KW - Storytelling KW - Teenage boys KW - Zoo animals KW - Ocean travel KW - Shipwreck victims KW - Airplane crash survival KW - India KW - Pacific Ocean N1 - Originally published: Canada: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001; Edinburgh: Canongate, 2002 N2 - After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a 16 year old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orangutan, and a 450 pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary works of fiction in recent years ER -