Publicado por CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018
ISBN 10: 1985373289 ISBN 13: 9781985373280
Librería: Reliant Bookstore, El Dorado, KS, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: good. The cover is clean but does show some wear. The cover may have stickers or sticker residue on it. The pages show normal wear and tear. May have varying covers. Fast Shipping - Mailed in plastic mailer!.
Publicado por CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018
ISBN 10: 1985373289 ISBN 13: 9781985373280
Librería: Decluttr, Kennesaw, GA, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por CreateSpace Independent Publis, 2024
ISBN 10: 1985373289 ISBN 13: 9781985373280
Librería: Save With Sam, North Miami, FL, Estados Unidos de America
paperback. Condición: New. Brand New! This item is printed on demand.
Publicado por CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018
ISBN 10: 1985373289 ISBN 13: 9781985373280
Librería: booksXpress, Bayonne, NJ, Estados Unidos de America
Soft Cover. Condición: new.
Publicado por Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018
ISBN 10: 1985373289 ISBN 13: 9781985373280
Librería: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, Reino Unido
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Publicado por Harper [HarperCollins], New York, 2013
ISBN 10: 0062209841 ISBN 13: 9780062209849
Librería: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Very good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very good. Vanessa Stump (Author photograph) Ilustrador. [8], 309, [3] pages. Signed by the author on the title page. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Book is in a slipcase, which has slight wear. Lisa O'Donnell's debut novel, The Death of Bees, was the winner of the Commonwealth Book Prize. She won the Orange Prize for New Screenwriters for her screenplay The Wedding Gift. Lisa was also nominated in 2000 for the Dennis Potter New Writers Award. A riveting, brilliantly written debut novel, The Death of Bees is a coming-of-age story in which two young sisters attempt to hold the world at bay after the mysterious death of their parents. Marnie and Nelly, left on their own in Glasgow's Hazlehurst housing estate, attempt to avoid suspicion until Marnie can become a legal guardian for her younger sister. Written with fierce sympathy and beautiful precision, and told in alternating voices, The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell is an enchanting, grimly comic tale of lost souls who, unable to answer for themselves, can answer only for each other. Derived from a Kirkus review: An unusual coming-of-age novel that features two sisters who survive years of abuse and neglect. The story is written with a distinct Scottish flavor, in very brief chapters told from the alternating points of view of the two girls and a neighbor who takes them in and ultimately covers for them when their dark secret is uncovered. The story starts when the older sister discovers both of her parents dead, her father suffocated in his bed and her mother hanging in an outdoor shed. She and her younger sister decide to bury their parents in the garden rather than risk a return to the foster care which they had previously endured and disliked. To anyone who asks, including a drug dealer to whom their father owed money, they say their parents are in Turkey, but eventually the drug dealer finds the passports the parents would have needed to travel abroad. The neighbor, who has his own secrets and heartache, looks after them, feeds them and takes them into his home. Meanwhile, the dead mother's father, who had abandoned her not once but twice, comes looking for her to make amends since he got himself sober and discovered God. He does not, however, treat his granddaughters in a very loving way. In the midst of these developments, the neighbor's dog discovers the bones in the garden, and the neighbor, in an effort to protect the girls he has come to love and cherish as his own children, moves the bones to his own garden and eventually claims to have murdered the pair. While dealing with this strange and surreal experience, the two girls also go through the more mundane trials of female adolescenceâ"peer pressures at school, menstruation and the confusions that accompany awakening sexuality. The author's experience as a screenwriter is most definitely apparent, as the reader always hears the voices and can visualize the dramatic, sometimes appallingly grim scenes. First United States Edition {stated]. First printing [stated].