Mister Pip

Opis książki:

A promising though ultimately overwrought portrayal of the small rebellions and crises of disillusionment that constitute a young narrators coming-of-age unfolds against an ominous backdrop of war in Joness latest. When the conflict between the natives and the invading redskin soldiers erupts on an unnamed tropical island in the early 1990s, 13-year-old Matilda Laimo and her mother, Dolores, are unified with the rest of their village in their efforts for survival. Amid the chaos, Mr. Watts, the only white local (he is married to a native), offers to fill in as the childrens schoolteacher and teaches from Dickenss Great Expectations. The precocious Matilda, who forms a strong attachment to the novels hero, Pip, uses the teachings as escapism, which rankles Dolores, who considers her daughters fixation blasphemous. With a mixture of thrill and unease, Matilda discovers independent thought, and Jones captures the intricate, emotionally loaded evolution of the mother-daughter relationship. Jones (The Book of Fame; Biografi) presents a carefully laid groundwork in the tense interactions between Matilda, Dolores and Mr. Watts, but the extreme violence toward the end of the novel doesnt quite work. Joness prose is faultless, however, and the story is innovative enough to overcome the misplayed tragedy.

Książka "Mister Pip" - Lloyd Jones - oprawa miękka - Wydawnictwo John Murray. Książka posiada 224 stron i została wydana w 2008 r.