Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones
Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones
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Mister Pip

Author: Lloyd Jones

Narrator: Susan Lyons

Unabridged: 7 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/03/2008


Synopsis

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Lloyd Jones' Mister Pip is a modern tragedy set on a tiny copper-rich tropical island emabattled by internal strife. Thirteen-year-old Matilda watches as all the foreigners flee her homeland-all but one, the white man Mr. Watts. Amidst the ruins of the town schoolhouse, Watts reads Dickens' Great Expectations to the children, thus sparking their imaginations and giving them hope in a chaotic world.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Conrad on November 01, 2007

This is when two and a half stars would be handy. I really couldn't stand this book for a couple of reasons when I first started reading it. It has a narrative voice that sounds like an oldish adult trying to sound like a five year old. Jones writes in staccato sentences that are occasionally poetic......more

Goodreads review by Julie on January 02, 2008

This is a fascinating book ostensibly about an isolated island in the south Pacific and its inhabitants caught in a war over a copper mine. The lone white man on the island decides to help the children through the tension by reading from Great Expectations, and various repercussions follow. But, the......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on February 27, 2011

I've had this book on my shelf for a few years now, and when New Zealand came up as the first country in the Travelling the World challenge, it seemed like fate that I'd waited this long to read it. Well, the author's a Kiwi but the book is actually set on the small tropical island of Bougainville,......more