Mr. Foe en Mrs. Barton

Samenvatting

When Susan Barton is marooned on an island in the Atlantic, she becomes more than a castaway-she finds herself a character in a fiction. For she will spend a year with two men whose names will become synonymous with islands: a mute Negro named Friday, and his master, Robinson Cruso. Back in London, with Friday as evidence of her strange adventure, she approaches the author Daniel Foe. But Foe is less interested in the history of Robinson Cruso than in the story of Susan herself, and battle lines are drawn between writer and subject.