Life of Pi ship sinks in the middle of the Pacific Ocean during a voyage to North America. Richard Parker is a royal Bengal tiger who is stranded on the lifeboat with Pi when the ship sinks. Richard Parker lives on the lifeboat with Pi and is kept alive with the food and water Pi delivers. Richard Parker develops a relationship with Pi that allows them to coexist in their struggle. In the novel, a hunter named Richard Parker is hired to kill a panther thought to have killed seven people within two months. Instead, he accidentally immobilizes a female Bengal tiger with
The Bottom of the Bottle (novel) The Bottom of the Bottle (novel) The Bottom of the Bottle is a novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. The original French version "Le Fond de la Bouteille", written in 1948 when Simenon was living in Arizona, appeared in 1949. The novel is among his "romans durs", a term roughly translated as hard, or harrowing, novels; it was used by Simenon for what he regarded as his serious literary works. The story is set in Arizona near the Mexican border: a rancher's life is disrupted by the appearance of his brother, who has escaped from jail and is determined