Mister Pip
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Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
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.
Lloyd Jones is a stupid man from the south of England with a goofy beard. Visit www.lloydjonesillustration.com to view more of his work. Lloyd holds a first-class honours degree in illustration from the University of Portsmouth, as well as an MA in Sequential Design and Illustration from the University of Brighton, and is now pursuing a PGCE FE from the University of Southampton.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385341073 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385341075 |
| Title | Mister Pip |
| Author | Lloyd Jones |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Dial Press Trade Paperback |
| Year published | 2008-05-20 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Prizes | Winner of ALA Notable Book 2007, Winner of Alex Award - YALSA 2008, Winner of American Library Association Literary Awards 2007, Winner of Commonwealth Writer's Prize in the UK 2007, Winner of Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize 2008, Winner of YALSA Best Books for Young Adults 2008 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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