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Title: Ella Minnow Pea : A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn ISBN: 0-385-72243-5 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.68 (28 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A fun, alphabetic frolic
Comment: This epistolary novel is probably not for everyone. But if you enjoy sophisticated language and language manipulation (read: English majors), this is a wonderfully creative book.
Dunn creates an idyllic island nation, Nollopton (formerly Utopiana), that quickly descends to a military state reminiscent of Orwell's 1984, with neighbor turning in neighbor and students reporting teachers when letters from that famous panagram, "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog," start falling off the statue to honor the sentence and the man who created it, Nevin Nollop. The High Council, politicians elected for life, take this as a sign from Nollop himself, disregarding the fact that the glue that holds the letters on is over 100 years old.
And so, the people of Nollop, who because of inconsistent phone service are a letter-writing people, must, one by one, eliminate letters from their lives or face serious punishment, including banishment for the third offense. The letters become truly hilarious as more of the alphabet disappears--just imagine a world with no "D"! Dunn manages, despite all of this alphabetical mayhem, to build in love interests for the two young cousins who most consistently write to one another. A completely enjoyable afternoon read that I think has found a place as one of my favorite books.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Book for Scrabble Enthusiasts
Comment: What a strange,imaginative, and creative reading experience!A fable told in letters, Mark Dunn's book shows us the sometimes hilarious and more often sad results of censorship as the island of Nollop,begins to lose their alphabet. Named after Nevin Nollop who phrased the line: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, the council of the island feel he's speaking to them from the dead when the letters of the phrase begin to fall off a memorial statue of him in the town square. They then ban the falling letters from the alpahabet and so they also disappear from the pages of the book causing a creative bit of wordplay as more letters drop. Both fun and frustrating the book can be digested in one wordful sitting as the heroine tries to save the town. A really inventive and fun read!
Rating: 5
Summary: Original and Fun
Comment: This is one of the most unique novels I've ever read.It's about life on a small island off the coast of South Carolina where the residents practically worship the author of the famous sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." But when the letters start to fall off the sign in the town square, they are forbidden. As the book progresses and more and more letters are banned, the author gets creative with his spelling and word usage. The island's government decides that whoever can write a sentence like the famous one using all the ltters of the alphabet, will be honored. The resulting sentence is surprising and delightful. This is a must-have for anyone who loves reading and writing, or for that matter, the freedom of speech. It will make you feel lucky to live in America."Ella Minnow Pea" is short, well-written, and memorable.
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Title: This Boy's Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff ISBN: 0802136680 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable by Mark Dunn ISBN: 0967370167 Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Peace Like a River by Leif Enger ISBN: 0802139256 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 20 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison ISBN: 0679732764 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Sentence Composing for College : A Worktext on Sentence Variety and Maturity by Don Killgallon ISBN: 0867094478 Publisher: Boynton/Cook Pub. Date: 03 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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