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The Bone People

by Hulme, Keri

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ISBN 10
0807112844
ISBN 13
9780807112847
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Hulme, Keri: The Bone People. Louisiana State University Press, A tale of New Zealand. Stated United States First Edition, 1985. 450 pages, indexed. WINNER OF THE PEGASUS PRIZE FOR LITERATURE AND THE BOOKER PRIZE. Used. Very Good/Very Good unclipped original $17.95 dust jacket. Summary: "The Bone People, first published in 1984 by Spiral, New Zealand. About this book: The Bone People is an unusual story of love. It is unusual in the telling, the subject matter, and the form of love that the story depicts. This is in no way a romance; it is filled with violence, fear, and twisted emotions. At the story's core, however, are three people who struggle very hard to figure out what love is and how to find it. Hulme won New Zealand's Pegasus Prize for Literature (1984) for The Bone People. Then the book went on to win the prestigious Booker Prize (1985).

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
Mary Riversong Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
495HulmeBonePeople
Title
The Bone People
Author
Hulme, Keri
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
Stated 2nd Edition
ISBN 10
0807112844
ISBN 13
9780807112847
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Place of Publication
Baton Rouge & London
Date Published
1985
Pages
450
Size
6 1/4 X 9 3/8
Keywords
Pegasus Prize, Booker Prize, 20th Century Literature, New Zealand, Maori, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Novel, Novel, Love, Emotion,
Bookseller catalogs
Archaeology; Australiana; Social Sciences; Anthropology; oceania; 20th Century Literature;

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