Mister Pip
By: Lloyd Jones
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Montana New Zealand Book Awards
Publisher: W.F. Howes
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781407413471
Subjects: Storytelling; Fiction; Books and reading
Other titles: Mr Pip
Description: "On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with almost everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens's classic Great Expectations." "So begins this story about the abiding strength that imagination, once ignited, can provide. While artillery echoes in the mountains, thirteen-year-old Matilda and her peers are riveted by the adventures of a young orphan named Pip in a city called London, a city whose contours soon become more real than their own blighted landscape. As Mr. Watts says, "A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe." Soon come the rest of the villagers, initially threatened, finally inspired to share tales of their own that bring alive the rich mythology of their past. But in a ravaged place where even children are forced to live by their wits and daily survival is the only objective, imagination can be a dangerous thing."--Jacket.
Notes: Originally published: Melbourne: Text, 2006; London: John Murray, 2007.

New Zealand author.

"Clipper large print"--Cover.

Montana New Zealand Book Awards Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry, 2007

Montana New Zealand Book Awards Readers' Choice Award, 2007