EPISODE · Sep 28, 2021 · 4H 26M
Mark Dunn's Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/535276 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters Author: Mark Dunn Narrator: Sara Morsey, Lauren Ezzo, Renata Friedman, Michael Crouch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 28, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: 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 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 phrase containing all the letters of the alphabet, “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 'a love letter to alphabetarians and logomaniacs everywhere' (Myla Goldberg, bestselling author of Bee Season).
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/535276 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters Author: Mark Dunn Narrator: Sara Morsey, Lauren Ezzo, Renata Friedman, Michael Crouch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 28, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: 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 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 phrase containing all the letters of the alphabet, “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 'a love letter to alphabetarians and logomaniacs everywhere' (Myla Goldberg, bestselling author of Bee Season).
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