The Book of Fame by Lloyd Jones

The Book of Fame by Lloyd Jones

In August 1905 a party of young men took ship for England. Among them: four farmers, two bootmakers, and a boatbuilder. They set out from Auckland, never dreaming they would conquer the world. They were bound for fame.

From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Mister Pip comes an utterly extraordinary novel about the New Zealand rugby team's 1905 tour of Europe. In this singular melding of history and imagination, Lloyd Jones has created a work of great beauty and purity--a journey from innocence to celebrity; a story of loss and return.

Lloyd Jones was born in New Zealand in 1955. His best-selling novel Mister Pip won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2007 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Jones is the author of a further twelve books, including the multi-award-winning Book of Fame.

Lloyd Jones was born in New Zealand in 1955. His best-known novel is Mister Pip, which won the 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the 2008 Kiriyama Prize Fiction Category, the 2008 Montana Award for Readers Choice, the Montana Fiction Award and the Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry. It was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and has been made into a major feature film, directed by Andrew Adamson (Shrek and Narnia). His other books include Hand Me Down World, The Book of Fame--which won the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the 2001 Montana New Zealand Book Awards and the Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize--Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance and Biografi. He has also published a collection of short stories, The Man in the Shed. Lloyd Jones lives in Wellington.

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ISBN 13	9781921145971
ISBN 10	1921145978
Title	The Book of Fame
Author	Lloyd Jones
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Text Publishing
Year published	2007-07-30
Number of pages	192
Prizes	Winner of Tasmania Prize for Fiction (Australia)., Winner of Deutz Medal for Fiction (New Zealand).
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.