The Kin (Bind-Up): Suth's Story / Noli's Story / Ko's Story / Mana's Story, Volume 1-4 (Kin)

Dickinson, Peter (Author)

ISBN 10: 0142501204 / ISBN 13: 9780142501207

Published by Firebird / Penguin Books, New York, New York, 2003

About this Item

Light crease near hinge on front cover. The spine has light creasing, other wise the covers show some light shelf wear. the binding is good and the pages are clean.

Seller Inventory # 820002

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Kin (Bind-Up): Suth's Story / Noli's Story / Ko's Story / Mana's Story, Volume 1-4 (Kin)
• Publisher: Firebird / Penguin Books, New York, New York
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0142501204
• ISBN 13: 9780142501207
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Illustrator: Andrew, Ian
• Edition: First American Edition.
• Condition: Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Book Type: Used Book

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Synopsis

Offers a story about how language and communication came into being after a group of children are driven away from their people by strangers and are forced to start a new life in dangerous and desolate new surroundings without any real guidance. Simultaneous.

About the Author

Peter Dickinson was born in Africa but raised and educated in England. From 1952 to 1969 he was on the editorial staff of Punch, and since then earned his living writing fiction of various kinds for children and adults. His books have been published in several languages throughout the world.
 
The author of twenty-one crime and mystery novels for adults, Dickinson was the first to win the Gold Dagger Award of the Crime Writers’ Association for two books running: The Glass-Sided Ants Nest (1968) and The Old English Peepshow (1969). Dickinson was shortlisted nine times for the prestigious Carnegie Medal for children’s literature and was the first author to win it twice.
 
Dickinson served as chairman of the Society of Authors and was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2009 for services to literature. Peter Dickinson died on December 16, 2015, at the age of eighty-eight.