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Mister Pip

Mister Pip

by Lloyd Jones
Paperback
Publication Date: 27/10/2008

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You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.


After the trouble starts and the soldiers arrive on Matilda's island, there comes a time when all the white people have left. Only Mr Watts remains, and he wears a red nose and pulls his wife around on a trolley; the kids call him Popeye behind his back. But there is no one else to teach them their lessons, and no books left to learn from-except for Mr Watts's battered copy of Great Expectations, 'by my friend Mr Dickens'.


As Mr Watts stands before the class and reads, Dickens's hero, Pip, starts to come alive in Matilda's imagination. Soon he has become as real to her as her own family, and the greatest friendship of her life has begun.


But Matilda is not the only one who believes in Pip. And on an island at war, the power of the imagination can be a dangerously provocative thing.


A dazzling achievement, Mister Pip is a love song to the power of storytelling. It is about belonging and losing one's way, about love, grief and memory, and it shows how books can change our lives forever.
ISBN:
9781921520242
9781921520242
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
27-10-2008
Language:
English
Publisher:
Text Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
240
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x15mm
Weight:
0.2kg
Lloyd Jones

Lloyd Jones has written novels, short stories and a memoir.

He won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for his novel Mister Pip.

His other books include Hand Me Down World and A History of Silence. Lloyd lives in Wellington.

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