9780719564567
Mister Pip
Jones, Lloyd
ISBN 13: 9780719564567
Publication Date: 2007
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"On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with almost everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens's classic Great Expectations." "So begins this story about the abiding strength that imagination, once ignited, can provide. While artillery echoes in the mountains, thirteen-year-old Matilda and her peers are riveted by the adventures of a young orphan named Pip in a city called London, a city whose contours soon become more real than their own blighted landscape. As Mr. Watts says, "A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe." Soon come the rest of the villagers, initially threatened, finally inspired to share tales of their own that bring alive the rich mythology of their past. But in a ravaged place where even children are forced to live by their wits and daily survival is the only objective, imagination can be a dangerous thing."--BOOK JACKET.
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Book Description: John Murray, Great Britain, 2007. Hard Back. Book Condition: New. First Edition. A new book in excellent condition. Dust Jacket is in excellent condition and delightful design. Shortlisted for The Man BOOKER PRIZE 2007 - A story set on a remote South Pacific Island threatened by uprising. The central character, Matilda, and her classmates find their lives intertwined with those of a boy called Pip and a man named Mr Dickens. A story of survival by storytelling. Bookseller Inventory # 2004262 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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Book Description: John Murray 14 Jun 2007, London, 2007. Book Condition: New. Review\n\n\n ?It?s clear from the first page that this is prize-winning stuff. Being a truthful writer, Jones sees nothing neither his heroes nor his villains in black and white. His is a bold inquiry into the way that we construct and repair our communities, and ourselves, with stories old and new? (The Times )\n\n?In this dazzling story-within-a-story, Jones has created a microcosm of post-colonial literature, hybridising the narratives of back and white races to create a new and resonant fable . There is a fittingly dreamy lyrical quality to Jones?s writing, along with an acute ear for the earthly harmonies of village speech . Original cloth with dust-jacket. Bookseller Inventory # b302bcfca718f6a24f17b652de3d0365 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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