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Author | Peter Benchley |
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Cover artist | Alex Gotfryd/Fred Marcellino[1] |
Language | English |
Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | 1979 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | |
Pages | 302 |
ISBN | 0-385-13172-0 |
The Island is a novel by Peter Benchley, published in 1979 by Doubleday & Co. It is about a journalist and his son who are captured by a band of modern-day pirates in the Caribbean, who brainwash the boy and groom him to become leader of the pirate band. In 1980, it was made into a film adaptation under the same title, directed by Michael Ritchie.