Bacigalupi, Paolo.

Ship breaker / by Paolo Bacigalupi. - 1st ed. - New York : Little, Brown and Co., c2010. - 326 p. ; 22 cm.

"A novel"--Cover.

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.

ISBN: 9780316056212 0316056219

LCCN: 2009034424

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Conduct of life--Fiction.
Recycling (Waste, etc.)--Fiction.
Dystopias--Fiction.
Clipper ships--Fiction.
Salvage--Fiction.
Poverty--Fiction.
Violence in men--Fiction.
Teenage boys--Fiction.
Shipwrecks--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Adventure stories--2011.
Science fiction--2011.

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]