THE BONE PEOPLE
by Hulme, Keri
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0807112844
- ISBN 13
- 9780807112847
- Seller
-
Rockville, Maryland, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
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.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1371028
- Title
- THE BONE PEOPLE
- Author
- Hulme, Keri
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third printing
- ISBN 10
- 0807112844
- ISBN 13
- 9780807112847
- Publisher
- Louisiana State University Press
- Place of Publication
- Baton Rouge
- Date Published
- 1986
Terms of Sale
Second Story Books, ABAA
About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
About Second Story Books, ABAA
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...