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The Bone People - SIGNED
by Hulme, Keri
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
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Harrogate, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hodder and Stoughton, 1985. A first edition, second issue, published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1985. This is the second issue which is smaller in size to the first issue and has the flash on the wrapper stating, 'Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1985'. The book has been signed and inscribed by the author to the ffep (and located, stating Orario). The book is very good only and has wear to the boards and a small black dot to the base of the page edge – no other inscriptions. In a near fine clipped wrapper which is a little sunned on the spine. Complete with the Booker Shortlist band. Hulme's success with this title had a negative effect on her state of mind and she became reclusive. Signed copies of this title in any form are extremely rare and virtually unknown.
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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- Bookseller
- John Atkinson Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14091
- Title
- The Bone People - SIGNED
- Author
- Hulme, Keri
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Date Published
- 1985
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Harrogate, North Yorkshire
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