Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
Ella 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...
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Ella 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.
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780385722438
Publish date: 17-09-2002
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Novels,
Humor,
Science Fiction,
Humanities,
Language,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Adult,
Dystopia,
Fiction
This book is GENIUS. It's an epistolary novel, meaning it's written as a series of letters. It's set in Nollop, a town that literally worships Nevin Nollop, who coined the panagram sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog". Nollop has a statue with the sentence inscribed on it, but one ...
A clever novel that is probably more fun for linguaphiles than for the general reader. The premise is that a tiny island nation off the coast of the U.S. has been constituted around Nollop, the originator of the pangram "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." The community eschews or lacks ma...
I read this entire book in one sitting because I didn't want to lose track of the flow. I learned "the sentence" many many years ago, so that part was kind of spoiled for me by prior knowledge. But still a fun story, especially for people like me who love to play with words. Incredibly clever and...
Borrowed this one from the library, but just couldn't get into it. We were still in the process of unpacking through, so it may just have been not the right book at the right time. Might try it again one day.
A novel in letters. Ella lives on an island just outside the US where the 'author' of "The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over The Lazy Dog" is hailed as a hero. There is even a statue of him with the infamous quote written on it. When the tiles with letters start falling down one by one, the city council d...
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