Buy this book on-line HULME Keri : The Bone PeopleSpiral, Wellington, 1983 ISBN 0959759328
8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. first issue in first NZ edition, light handling wear with rubbed or creased edges, lacks blank front endpaper, crossed out name in pen to first (title) page, no errata page as called for, [x],469,[1]pp New Zealand native maori culture based novel. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of HULME Keri : The Bone People. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. HULME,KERI: : THE BONE PEOPLELONDON.SPIRAL/HODDER & STOUGHTON,1985. ISBN 0340370246.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd state.
NFINE/NFINE.Neat,ink,dated,gift presentation inscrptn to ffe but no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour,pictorial illustrated
upper wrap and literary critics' reviews to rear wrap,with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to dw/dj's edges and a
small closed tear to upper,top edge towards spine/backstrip edge - no other nicks or tears present.Miniscule bumping with reciprocal creases to both head+foot of spine/backstrip and corners not bumped.
Top edge lightly aged and dust-soiled as usual/normal with light spotting/grubbing;
fore-edge less aged and considerably cleaner,contents bright,tight and clean with no dog-ear creases to corners.Bright,
clean, virtually unblemished, plain black paper-covered bds with bright, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean,
plain white eps.8vo,3-450pp includes half-title+title pages, preface, contents list, prologue, 4 Pts, an epilogue and 5pp translations of Maori words and phrases to rear.
'The Bone People' is an extraordinary novel blending reality with dreams, melding Maori and European,weaving strange
and hurtful pasts into strangely bright futures.A literary tour de force, this unusual, painfully felt novel focuses
on a strange and uneasy triangle.Kerewin, a sometime artist living alone on the edge
of the sea, finds her solitary, self-sufficient life interrupted by the arrival
of a silent urchin who communicates with her only by sign language.He is claimed eventually by his stepfather, whose relationship with the boy often erupts into violence, frustration and despair.
Originally published February, 1984 by SPIRAL, a women writers' collective, in New Zealand, this was originally a short story title 'Simon Peter's Shell' and took
twelve years to evolve/write.Widely acclaimed in author's native New Zealand and winner of the 1985 Booker Prize,this 2nd state edition has the Shortlisted for Booker Prize 1985 dw/dj.
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