LOWRY, Lois.
The Giver Quartet.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
$175.00
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Item Number: RRB-152741
First Edition of The Giver Quartet, Collecting All Four Novels; With a Photograph Signed by Lois Lowry
First edition of the collected Giver Quartet, gathering all four of Lois Lowry’s acclaimed novels in a single volume, The Giver, Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son. Octavo, original boards with decorations stamped in red. In fine condition. Accompanied by a laid in clipping bearing a photographic portrait, signed by Lois Lowry and dated September 2003. A handsome collected edition of one of the most beloved dystopian sequences in modern young adult literature.
In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to be the community’s Receiver of Memories. Under the tutelage of the Elders and an old man known as the Giver, he discovers the disturbing truth about his utopian world and struggles against the weight of its hypocrisy. With echoes of Brave New World, in this 1994 Newbery Medal winner, Lowry examines the idea that people might freely choose to give up their humanity in order to create a more stable society. Gradually Jonas learns just how costly this ordered and pain-free society can be, and boldly decides he cannot pay the price. “A powerful and provocative novel” (The New York Times). Made into a major motion picture starring Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes, Taylor Swift, Alexander Skarsgard, and Brenton Thwaites.
The Giver Quartet.
$175.00
In Stock
