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Mister Pip
In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story...
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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.
Author: Lloyd Jones
Publisher: Dial Press
Published: 05/20/2008
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.46h x 4.96w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780385341073
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.3
Point Value: 10
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 120291 / Mister Pip
Review Citation(s):
Shelf Awareness 01/01/2011
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, Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance and Paint Your Wife. Lloyd Jones lives in Wellington. Jones's Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance will be available in the U.S. for the first time on August 26, 2008.
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.
Author: Lloyd Jones
Publisher: Dial Press
Published: 05/20/2008
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.46h x 4.96w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780385341073
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.3
Point Value: 10
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 120291 / Mister Pip
Review Citation(s):
Shelf Awareness 01/01/2011
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, Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance and Paint Your Wife. Lloyd Jones lives in Wellington. Jones's Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance will be available in the U.S. for the first time on August 26, 2008.
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