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Bone People
by Keri Hulme
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0340370246
- ISBN 13
- 9780340370247
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About This Item
Spiral Press and Hodder and Stoughton, Auckland London Sydney Toronto, 1985. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First UK Edition. This first UK edition/first printing is in very fine condition with a slight to front bottom tip in a fine price clipped dust jacket. This book is Keri Hulme's literary tour de force. This unusual, painfully felt novel focuses on a strange and uneasy triangle. Kerewin, a sometime artist living alone on the edge of the sea, finds her solitary, self sufficient life interrupted by the arrival of a silent urchin who communicates with her only by sign language, He is claimed eventually by his stepfather, whose relationship with the boy often erupts in violence, frustration and despair. The Bone People is an extraordinary, alive and intense book, which is widely acclaimed in the authors native New Zealand, which is one of my go to places in which I have numerous relatives. The book scrutinizes closely, in fresh and original language, the equivocal faces of love. Ms Hulme' manuscript for this novel was rejected by many major publishing houses. " Undoubtedly Ms. hulme can write. But no one can understand what she is writing about. Sound like J.K. Rawling and Harry Potter. It was picked up by a small publisher, Spiral and went on to Win the Booker Prize for literature 1985.
Synopsis
Keri Hulme is a New Zealand writer, best known for her Man Booker prize-wining novel, The Bone People. The story is set on the harsh South Island beaches of New Zealand and recounts the stories and lives of three disparate and emotionally damaged people of mixed European and Maori heritage. Kerewin Holmes is a painter and a loner, convinced that "to care for anything is to invite disaster." Her isolation is disrupted one day when a six-year-old mute boy, Simon, breaks into her house. The sole survivor of a mysterious shipwreck, Simon has been adopted by a widowed Maori factory worker, Joe Gillayley, who is both tender and monstrously brutal toward the child. The novel uses journal entries, poems, dreams and narration to tell this raw, complicated story and to reveal each character’s motivations and desire to connect. Through shifting points of view, Hulme weaves together an unparralled story of vitality and glaring isolation.
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- Oshtemo Book Sellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 589
- Title
- Bone People
- Author
- Keri Hulme
- Format/Binding
- Black cloth over boards with gilt spine lettering
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first UK edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0340370246
- ISBN 13
- 9780340370247
- Publisher
- Spiral Pr
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- July 1, 1985
- Keywords
- First British Edition first printing
- Size
- 8vo
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