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Mister Pip

Lloyd Jones

Hardcover | Pages: 256 pages

Rating: 3.68 | 17615 Users | 2086 Reviews

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Original Title:	Mister Pip
ISBN:	0385341067 (ISBN13: 9780385341066)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Matilda, Mr. Watts
Setting:	Papua New Guinea
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (2007), ALA Alex Award (2008), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book Overall (2007), Kiriyama Prize for Fiction (2008), Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry (Montana NZ Awards) (2007)

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In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives.

On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most 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 rare, original story about the abiding strength that imagination, once ignited, can provide. As 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.

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Title	:	Mister Pip
Author	:	Lloyd Jones
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	July 31st 2007 by The Dial Press (first published September 25th 2006)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. War. Young Adult

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Ratings: 3.68 From 17615 Users | 2086 Reviews

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Unconvincing narrator, condescending, patronizing, less than successful end. Other than that it's an OK story. Note to middle aged white guys - think twice before writing as 13 year old black island girl.

I bought this book solely because I liked its cover. And it was shortlisted for Man Booker in 2007. So I thought it was good. I mean, the only thing that I liked, was this whole general idea. About native people living on this exotic post-colonial island which is struck by civil war between the rebels and redskin army with their helicopters flying above the palm trees, and how white world doesnt give a shit, and relations among the villagers and their relations with the war situation and

Goodness I loved this book. If I sound surprised -- I am. From the description I wasn't sure if it was going to be my kind of thing and I wasn't even sure I would bother reading it (which is kind of why I took it with me on the plane -- then I have no choice!). But the story just wove its way into my head and wouldn't let go. It's even in first-person -- and I don't like first person -- but I didn't even really notice. The story is set in Papua New Guinea -- it doesn't explicitly say that, but

For the love of everything holy. I'm adding to this review because 1) apparently it pops up as a frequently read review for the novel and 2) apparently people have a LOT of feelings about this review and feel very strongly they should tell me exactly how and why I am wrong about it. And look, I would be 100% for that if it were debate about the text and interpretative merit etc (and there are a few commenters who do get into that, and that's an interesting debate to have because, truly, there is

'Mister Pip' is an amazing book filled with all sides of Life: the good, the bad, and the ugly. There is family, friendship, trust, acts of kindness and wisdom. There is an island, that is home, surrounded by nature and the sea. However, there are also some cringe-worthy, horror-inducing war atrocities. The novel doesn't beautify anything: it shows the inhumanity that war is and made me wonder whether war makes monsters or monsters make war. The novel is written extremely well. Lloyd Jones is a

Mister Pip written by Lloyd Jones focuses on the power of imagination and the ability of literature to act as an escape from reality. Mr. Watt is one of the few remaining white men after the war begins on the island of Bougainville. He becomes a teacher for the native children of the island and uses Charles Dicken's Great Expectations to teach the children about the importance of imagination. Pip is significant to Jones's novel because he is the main character of Great Expectations that Mr.

I am always a bit dubious about a book that has won the Man Booker Prize, purely because I almost always don't like them. This was no exception: I found it patronising and uncomfortable reading because of it. The language in places was quite beautiful but the story premises were way dodgy as it seemed to say a white man was needed to.....pretty much teach the locals how to present their own stories/culture to each other. A society in chaos and one from outside who didn't leave.His need to be