Mister Pip
by Lloyd Jones
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- V. Good/V. Good
- ISBN 10
- 978067697X
- ISBN 13
- 9789780676971
- Seller
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cremona, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Alfred a Knopf Canada, 2007. 978-0-676-97927-5 256 pages. "Wuile artillery echoes in the mountains, thirteen year old Matilda and her peers are riveted by the adventuress of a young orphan named Pip in a city called London, a city whose contours soon become more real than their own blighted landscape." Dust jacket is bright and clean, no tears, not price clipped. Ivory paper on boards binding with blue cloth spine is in lovely condition. No former owner's name. Text is unmarked.. Stated first edition. HC and DJ. V. Good/V. Good.
Synopsis
In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives.On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most 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 rare, original story about the abiding strength that imagination, once ignited, can provide. As 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.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Ghost River Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 206449
- Title
- Mister Pip
- Author
- Lloyd Jones
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - V. Good
- Jacket Condition
- V. Good
- Edition
- Stated first edition
- ISBN 10
- 978067697X
- ISBN 13
- 9789780676971
- Publisher
- Alfred a Knopf Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2007
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