Bone People
by Hulme, Keri
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Vg/Vg- Faint Edgewear. Faint Soiling Ffep. Dj Lightly Sunned At Spine, Lightly Edgeworn. All Text Clean, Binding Tight. Pa/Vg- (See description)
- ISBN 10
- 0340370246
- ISBN 13
- 9780340370247
- Seller
-
Vancouver, Washington, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Synopsis
Keri Hulme is a New Zealand writer, best known for her Man Booker prize-wining novel, The Bone People. The story is set on the harsh South Island beaches of New Zealand and recounts the stories and lives of three disparate and emotionally damaged people of mixed European and Maori heritage. Kerewin Holmes is a painter and a loner, convinced that "to care for anything is to invite disaster." Her isolation is disrupted one day when a six-year-old mute boy, Simon, breaks into her house. The sole survivor of a mysterious shipwreck, Simon has been adopted by a widowed Maori factory worker, Joe Gillayley, who is both tender and monstrously brutal toward the child. The novel uses journal entries, poems, dreams and narration to tell this raw, complicated story and to reveal each character’s motivations and desire to connect. Through shifting points of view, Hulme weaves together an unparralled story of vitality and glaring isolation.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Vintage-Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MASTER315854I
- Title
- Bone People
- Author
- Hulme, Keri
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover.
- Book Condition
- Used - Vg/Vg- Faint Edgewear. Faint Soiling Ffep. Dj Lightly Sunned At Spine, Lightly Edgeworn. All Text Clean, Binding Tight. Pa
- Jacket Condition
- Vg- (See description)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0340370246
- ISBN 13
- 9780340370247
- Publisher
- Spiral/Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- Auckland, NZ.
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- Literature, Fiction, Booker Prize
Terms of Sale
Vintage-Books
Please indicate your preferred shipping method! Orders within the continental USA are shipped via media mail, unless otherwise arranged by you. We can also ship via USPS Priority Mail (uninsured).
Because of the USA situation with COVID and issues with USPS, we are currently shipping to USA addresses only.
If no shipping method is requested, we will ship via media mail (US Only). Washington state residents MUST add sales tax as per your local rate. All shipments are packed as carefully as possible. Larger books will cost more to ship Returns: You must notify us and return the book to us within 10 business days to receive a refund, with the item the same condition as when shipped. Shipping costs will not be refunded.
About the Seller
Vintage-Books
About Vintage-Books
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...