The bone people
(Book)
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Published:
New York : Penguin Books, 1986.
Format:
Book
Physical Desc:
450 pages ; 20 cm
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780140089226, 9780143116455, 0140089225, 0143116452, 9780143116455 (pbk.), 9780140089226 (pbk.), 0140089225 (pbk.)
Notes
General Note
Copyright date: 1983.
General Note
Winner of the Booker Prize.
Description
In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes: part Maori, part European, asexual and aromantic, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her family. One night her solitude is disrupted by a visitor--a 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 indigenous 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.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Hulme, K. (1986). The bone people. Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Hulme, Keri. 1986. The Bone People. Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Hulme, Keri, The Bone People. Penguin Books, 1986.
MLA Citation (style guide)Hulme, Keri. The Bone People. Penguin Books, 1986.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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