The Bone People
by Keri Hulme
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0959759328
- ISBN 13
- 9780959759327
- Seller
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Christchurch, New Zealand
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About This Item
Spiral, Wellington, 1983, First New Zealand Edition. Softcover octavo, 469 pages, true First Edition, First Printing. Booker Prize winning novel, first in New Zealand. Purple to covers not faded. Minor rubbing and creasing to front and rear covers. 'Keri Hulme has created what is at once a mystery, a love story, and an ambitious exploration of the zone where indigenous and European New Zealand meet, clash, and sometimes merge' (Alice Walker). Quite rare true first edition. Softcover, 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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- Bookseller
- Adventure Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 230009
- Title
- The Bone People
- Author
- Keri Hulme
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First New Zealand edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0959759328
- ISBN 13
- 9780959759327
- Publisher
- Spiral
- Place of Publication
- Wellington
- Date Published
- 1983
- Pages
- 469
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