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Ella Minnow Pea
a progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable
By Dunn, Mark R.
- ISBN
- 978-0-96737-016-3
- Publisher
- San Francisco : MacAdam/Cage Pub., c2001.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2002
Adult/High School With shades of Kurt Vonnegut, George Orwell, and William P ne du Bois, Ella Minnow Pea is delightfully clever from start to finish. It's set on Nollop, a fictional island off the coast of South Carolina named for its long-dead founder, Nevin Nollop, the "genius" who came up with "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." A huge cenotaph of Nollop's sentence stands over the town square-and one day, the "z" falls to the ground. Nollop's elected-for-life Council inte...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
