new zealander in keri hulme's the bone people

She also wrote under the pen name Kai Tainui. Keri Ann Ruhi Hulme (1947 2021) was a New Zealand novelist, poet and short-story writer.

Includes the author's Preface to the First Edition and a Glossary of Maori words. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Very Good+ in Wraps: shows indications of very careful use: just a touch of wear to the extremities mild rubbing to the wrapper covers a faint crease near the lower front corner tip and some stress creases to the backstrip the expected tanning to the text pages due to aging the binding is square and secure the text is clean. First Edition Thus, First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Compared to the works of James Joyce in its use of indigenous language and portrayal of consciousness, 'The Bone People', the somewhat controversial winner of the 1985 Booker Prize and the author's only full length novel, captures the soul of New Zealand. Through shifting points of view, the novel reveals each character's thoughts and feelings as they struggle with the desire to connect and the fear of attachment. The sole survivor of a mysterious shipwreck, Simon has been adopted by a widower Maori factory worker, Joe Gillayley, who is both tender and horribly brutal toward the boy. Her isolation is disrupted one day when a six year old mute boy, Simon, breaks into her house. Kerewin Holmes is a painter and a loner, convinced that 'to care for anything is to invite disaster'. Set on the South Island beaches of New Zealand, a harsh environment, the novel chronicles the complicated relationships between three emotional outcasts of mixed European and Maori heritage. Integrating both Maori myth and New Zealand reality, ' The Bone People' became the most successful novel in New Zealand publishing history when it appeared in 1984.

Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly bruised, not price clipped (£9.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. First UK edition, second impression, published after winning the Man Booker Prize.

New zealander in keri hulme's the bone people