The Giver.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993. Later printing. Publisher's full red paper, in Lois Lowry dust jacket ($14.95). Lightly stained top edge, very slight presses to spine tips, still near fine, in fine, gently rubbed dust jacket, in mylar cover. Item #239174
AS THE COLOR SEEPS IN
A world stripped of color, with no pain, where everyone follows the rules. Jobs are assigned, children are passed out to parents, all wheels of society roll smoothly along. This is Jonas's life, until he is appointed the next "Receiver of Memory," chosen to hold the collective memory of his seemingly utopian community. Slowly, both color and the full range of human emotion start to seep in. In the vein of 1984 and Fahrenheit 451, Lowry's Newbery Medal winner interrogates the implicit trust we have in easily-held beliefs, prompting young adults to question their societal norms for the first time.
This copy is inscribed and dated by Lowry, "for Sandrine... with best wishes, Lois Lowry, 1999."
Price: $425.00