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The Bone People Paperback - 1986
by Keri Hulme
Set in the harsh environment of the South Island beaches of New Zealand, this masterful story brings together three singular people in a trinity that reflects their country's varied heritage. Winner of the 1985 Booker-McConnell prize for fiction.
Summary
In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes, part Maori, part European, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her family. One night her solitude is disrupted by a visitora speechless, mercurial boy named Simon, who tries to steal from her and then repays her with his most precious possession. As Kerewin succumbs to Simon's feral charm, she also falls under the spell of his Maori foster father Joe, who rescued the boy from a shipwreck and now treats him with an unsettling mixture of tenderness and brutality. Out of this unorthodox trinity Keri Hulme has created what is at once a mystery, a love story, and an ambitious exploration of the zone where Maori and European New Zealand meet, clash, and sometimes merge.
Winner of both a Booker Prize and Pegasus Prize for Literature, The Bone People is a work of unfettered wordplay and mesmerizing emotional complexity.
Details
- Title The Bone People
- Author Keri Hulme
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 464
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1986-10-07
- ISBN 9780140089226 / 0140089225
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 7.6 x 5 x 1.1 in (19.30 x 12.70 x 2.79 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Racially mixed people, Boys
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 86005026
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
"This book is just amazingly, wondrously great."
Alice Walker
"An original, overwhelming, near-great work of literature"
The Washinton Post Book World
"Unforgettably rich and pungent"
The New York Times Book Review
Alice Walker
"An original, overwhelming, near-great work of literature"
The Washinton Post Book World
"Unforgettably rich and pungent"
The New York Times Book Review
Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 01/01/1986, Page 0
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