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- Publisher: Random House Inc
- ISBN: 0385722435
- WAPI (Tower ID): 100122041
- Release Date: September 1, 2002
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #88904 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #11504 in Fiction & Literature (See Top 100 Fiction & Literature Bestsellers)
- #808 in Literary (See Top 100 Literary Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionMore Books by Mark Dunn (Author)Run a Quick Search on "Ella Minnow Pea" by Mark Dunn to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Ella Minnow Pea"Browse more products related to "Mark Dunn"Review"The story itself is absolutely charming, and the reader can't help but cheer the author along as he himself loses letters chapter by chapter. Starting with 26 letters and dwindling down to a mere 5, Dunn does the impossible: he weaves an amazing tale in the middle of a linguistic experiment." "Cleverness is the hook with this little fable--those delighting in wordplay will be duly rewarded by seeing language stretched to its limits." Publisher's noteElla Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal pangram,* “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island’s Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively drop from the statue they also disappear from the novel. The result is both a hilarious and moving story of one girl’s fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere. AnnotationIn this literary fantasy, the island of Nollop, off the coast of South Carolina, is a tiny independent nation dedicated to the memory of Nevin Nollop, who invented the sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog," famous for using all the letters of the alphabet. Gradually, the letters on Nollop's monument begin disappearing, one at a time--first Z, then Q, etc. The rulers of Nollop decree that, on pain of exile, local citizens must stop using words containing each letter as it disappears. The difficulties arising from this nuttiness are manifold, and culminate in the person of the eponymous Ella, who must come up with a way out of the problem. If You Enjoy "Ella Minnow Pea (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:
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