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Description

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... read more

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Memorable Quotes

  • “Thanks to dreams, in the history of the galaxy the world has been reinvented more often than there are stars.”
  • “I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I'd found him - not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids to look there for a friend.”

First Sentence

Everyone called him Pop Eye.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Lloyd Jones (Author)

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  • Great Expectations

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