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The Bone People

by Keri Hulme

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London: Spiral Hodder and Stoughton, 1985. Hardcover. Near Fine book with tapping to the bottom spine and soiling to the top endpapers in a Near Fine Dust Jacket, with some wrinkling to the bottom spine. Reprint of the 1985 Booker Prize winner, printed the same year.

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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.

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Bookseller
MDS Books CA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
The Bone People
Author
Keri Hulme
Book Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Spiral Hodder and Stoughton
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1985

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Reprint
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