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Ship Breaker
Author: Paolo Bacigalupi
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Retail Price: | $19.99 |
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ISBN: 9781907411106
Format: Paperback
Published: June 2011
Published By: Hachette
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Published: June 2011
Published By: Hachette
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Product Description
In America's Gulf Coast region, grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota-and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or by chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: Strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life....![](/images/clearpixel.gif)