|a In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
|a Originally published in hardcover in May 2010 by Little, Brown and Company. |a Includes sneak preview of The Drowned Cities, a companion novel to Ship Breaker.
|a New York : |b Little, Brown and Company, |c 2011. |a Ship breaker / |c by Paolo Bacigalupi. "Suzanne Collins may have put dystopian literature on the YA map with The Hunger Games.but Bacigalupi is one of the genre's masters, employing inventively terrifying details in equally imaginative story lines.|a GK9 |b eng |e rda |c GK9 |d EUF |d OCLCQ |d NHA |d BDX |d BTCTA |d YDXCP |d OCLCO |d LPCLI |d OCLCQ |d OCLCF |d OCLCO |d G元 |d NZTPM |d OCLCO |d OCL |d CNUXB |d QE2 |d CHILD |d WLM |d QQ3 |d DGU |d KOTUI In this powerful novel, Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers a fast-paced adventure set in the vivid and raw, uncertain future of his companion novels The Drowned Cities and Tool of War. 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. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota-and hopefully live to see another day. Grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. In America's flooded Gulf Coast region, oil is scarce, but loyalty is scarcer. Synopsis: This thrilling bestseller and National Book Award Finalist is a gritty, high-stakes adventure of a teenage boy faced with conflicting loyalties, set in a dark future America devastated by the forces of climate change.
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