The Book of Fame - Softcover

Jones, Lloyd

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ISBN 10: 1921145978 ISBN 13: 9781921145971

Publisher: The Text Publishing Company, 2007

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In August 1905 a party of young men took ship for England. Among them: four farmers, two bootmakers, and a boatbuilder. They set out from Auckland, never dreaming they would conquer the world. They were bound for fame.

From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Mister Pip comes an utterly extraordinary novel about the New Zealand rugby team's 1905 tour of Europe. In this singular melding of history and imagination, Lloyd Jones has created a work of great beauty and purity--a journey from innocence to celebrity; a story of loss and return.

Lloyd Jones was born in New Zealand in 1955. His best-selling novel Mister Pip won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2007 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Jones is the author of a further twelve books, including the multi-award-winning Book of Fame.

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Review:

This starkly beautiful book . . . tackles the origin of myth, the creation and nature of man-made beauty, and the sense of self New Zealanders have both as individuals and as a nation ( The Age)

'Impressionistic and very vivid account of the birth of a sporting legend' ( Good Book Guide)

'Jones often expresses himself in beautifully clear prose poetry' ( The Tablet)

PRAISE FOR LLOYD JONES ( -)

Jones proves sly, engaging, worth-reading and even re-reading ( London Review of Books)

Being a truthful writer, Jones sees nothing; neither his heroes nor his villains in black and white. His is a bold inquiry into the way that we construct and repair our communities, and ourselves, with stories old and new ( The Times)

Lloyd Jones gives the tired post-colonial themes of self-reinvention ... a fresh, ingenious twist but his real achievement is bringing life and depth to his characters ( Sunday Telegraph)

Lloyd Jones brings to life the transformative power of fiction ( Sunday Times)

'Intriguing' ( Sally Bunn. Shropshire Star)

Book Description:

From the acclaimed author of Mister Pip.

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