The bone people: a novel
by Keri Hulme
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Edition:
- United States edition
- Creation:
- 1984
- Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1985
- Copyright:
- ©1983
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- Summary:
- Kerewin, a part-Maori painter living in self-exile, is drawn out of her isolation by a mute boy who is cast up on a beach, the only survivor of a shipwreck.
- Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- The end at the beginning
- I. Season of the day moon
- 1. Portrait of a sandal
- 2. Feelers
- 3. Leaps in the dark
- II. The sea round
- 4. A place to sleep by day
- 5. Spring tide, neap tide, ebb tide, flood
- 6. Ka Tata Te Po
- III. The lightning struck tower
- 7. Mirrortalk
- 8. Nightfall
- 9. Candles in the wind
- IV. Feldapart Sinews, breaken bones
- 10. The Kaumatua and the broken man
- 11. The boy by his own
- 12. The woman at the wellspring of death
- Epilogue
- Moonwater picking
- Translation of Maori words and phrases.
- Author/Creator:
- Hulme, Keri , author
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
- Main Work:
- Subjects:
- General Notes:
- Man Booker Prize, 1985.
- Creator Demographics:
- New Zealanders
Maori (New Zealand people)
Women - Physical Description:
- 450 pages ; 24 cm
- Call Numbers:
- PR9639.3.H75 B6 1985
- ISBNs:
- 0807112844
9780807112847
9780143116455
0143116452
0140089225
9780140089226 - Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 85012937
- OCLC Numbers:
- 12188626