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The Bone People
by Hulme, Keri
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0807112844
- ISBN 13
- 9780807112847
- Seller
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New Port Richey, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Louisiana State University Press, 1986. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Good/Fine. Larger, sturdy book, quality blue cloth, spine lightly slanted, very bright gilt lettering on spine, 450 pages. Very light brown spotting to pages' top edge. DJ glossy and colorfully designed in purple, white and blue front, an illustration of people in orange, black and purple at center, praise on back. DJ has light crease with a micro-nick at top back left. Near Very Fine DJ/Near Very Good.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Callaghan Books South
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 063425
- Title
- The Bone People
- Author
- Hulme, Keri
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 3rd Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0807112844
- ISBN 13
- 9780807112847
- Publisher
- Louisiana State University Press
- Place of Publication
- Baton Rouge
- Date Published
- 1986
- Pages
- 450
- Keywords
- New Zealand Fiction Maori Nation
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Callaghan Books South
Biblio member since 2004
New Port Richey, Florida
About Callaghan Books South
An internet bookstore, we have added 20 books a day to our inventory for a total of more than 40,000, specializing in Poetry, Vietnam Conflict, Native American, Literary Criticism.
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