Robinson Crusoe at the Waterpark: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
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A short story by Elizabeth McCracken from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.
In ‘Robinson Crusoe at the Waterpark’, a family trip to a Texan waterpark prompts a life-changing decision.
Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte Brontë’s game-changing novel and its beloved narrator.
Elizabeth McCracken
Elizabeth McCracken is the author of seven books, including The Souvenir Museum (long-listed for the National Book Award), Bowlaway, Thunderstruck & Other Stories (winner of the 2014 Story Prize and long-listed for the National Book Award), and The Giant’s House (a National Book Award finalist). Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, won three Pushcart Prizes, a National Magazine Award, and an O. Henry Prize. She has served on the faculty at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and currently holds the James Michener Chair for Fiction at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Robinson Crusoe at the Waterpark - Elizabeth McCracken
Robinson Crusoe at the Waterpark
Elizabeth McCracken
Logo MissingA short story from the collection
Reader,
I Married Him:
Stories inspired
by
Jane Eyre
edited by
Tracy Chevalier
Copyright
Published by The Borough Press
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd
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London SE1 9GF
www.harpercollins.co.uk
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
Foreword © Tracy Chevalier 2016
Robinson Crusoe at the Waterpark © Elizabeth McCracken 2016
The moral rights of the authors have been asserted
Cover design by Heike Schüssler © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2016
Jacket photograph © Dan Saelinger/Trunk Archive
A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.
This story is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on historical events and figures, are the works of the authors’ imaginations.
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Source ISBN: 9780008150594
Ebook Edition © April 2016 ISBN: 9780008173517
Version: 2016-03-16
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Foreword by Tracy Chevalier
Robinson Crusoe at the Waterpark – Elizabeth McCracken
Author Note
A Note on Charlotte Brontë
About the Publisher
FOREWORD BY
TRACY CHEVALIER
Why is Charlotte Brontë’s Reader, I married him
one of the most famous lines in literature? Why do we remember it and quote it so much?
Jane Eyre is poor, obscure, plain, and little
, with no family and no prospects; the embodiment of the underdog who ultimately triumphs. And Reader, I married him
is Jane’s defiant conclusion to her