Mister Pip

Name: Mister Pip
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9780143008965
Price: 27.0 NZD
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By Lloyd Jones

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One of the biggest novels ever published in New Zealand, and a bestseller throughout the world, the dazzling Mister Pip becomes available in B-format. Lloyd Jones' novel has been acclaimed throughout the world as a love song to the power of the imagination and of storytelling.... Read More

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Description

One of the biggest novels ever published in New Zealand, and a bestseller throughout the world, the dazzling Mister Pip becomes available in B-format.

Lloyd Jones' novel has been acclaimed throughout the world as a love song to the power of the imagination and of storytelling. It shows how books can change lives.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780143008965

Publisher: Penguin Group (NZ)

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 September 2008

Country: New Zealand

Imprint: Penguin Books (NZ)

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 230g

Pages: 240

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About the Author

As well as being a prolific novelist, Lloyd has published essays and children's books. His best known works include The Book of Fame, winner of numerous literary awards, Biografi, a New York Times Notable Book, Choo Woo, Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance, Paint Your Wife and Mister Pip, winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry, and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Jones is currently living in Germany as the recipient of the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency.

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