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Mister Pip

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Mister Pip

by Jones Lloyd

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ISBN 10
0670072052
ISBN 13
9780670072057
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New Zealand: Penguin, 2006. First edition thus. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Mint sixth printing - first hardback edition. Dust Jacket in Brodart cover - Flat signed by author on title page. "Signed" sticker on front. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 220 pages. Unread unopened except to peek at signature. one of only 1000 printed in this edition.

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
The Last Word NZ (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #
000406
Title
Mister Pip
Author
Jones Lloyd
Format/Binding
Hard Cover
Book Condition
New As New
Jacket Condition
As New
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First edition thus
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0670072052
ISBN 13
9780670072057
Publisher
Penguin
Place of Publication
New Zealand
Date Published
2006
Keywords
New Zealnd Author Montana Booker
Bookseller catalogs
Antiquarian and Collectable;

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First Edition
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Brodart
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Unopened
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Jacket
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