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Mister Pip
de Jones, Lloyd
- Nuevo
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- New
- ISBN 10
- 0676979289
- ISBN 13
- 9780676979282
- Librería
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" The Booker finalist and beloved novel that has taken the world by storm is now a major motion picture starring Hugh Laurie. Thirteen-year-old Matilda lives on a copper-rich tropical island that has been shattered by war, from which the teachers have fled along with everyone else. Only one white man chooses to stay behind, the eccentric Mr. Watts, the object of much curiosity and scorn. He sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and steps in to teach the children when there is no one else, and his only lessons consist of reading from his battered copy of Great Expectations, a book by his friend Mr. Dickens. First, the children, and the entire village, are riveted by the adventures of a young orphan named Pip, their imaginations aflame with dreams of Dickens's London and the larger world. But in a ravaged place where even children are forced to live by their wits and daily survival is the only objective, imagination-- it turns out-- is a dangerous thing." About the Author: Lloyd Jones was born in New Zealand in 1955. His previous novels and collections of stories include the award-winning The Book of Fame, Biografi, a New York Times Notable Book, Choo Woo, and Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance and Paint Your Wife. Lloyd Jones lives in Wellington.
Sinopsis
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.
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Detalles
- Librería
- MAD HATTER BOOKSTORE
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 20115
- Título
- Mister Pip
- Autor
- Jones, Lloyd
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo New
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0676979289
- ISBN 13
- 9780676979282
- Editorial
- Vintage Canada
- Lugar de publicación
- Toronto
- Fecha de publicación
- 2008
- Tamaño
- 8 vo
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