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Spare and found parts
Sarah Maria Griffin
Published
2016
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Written in English
Nell Crane has never held a boy"s hand. In a city devastated by an epidemic, where survivors are all missing parts--an arm, a leg, an eye--Nell has always been an outsider. Her father is the famed scientist who created the biomechanical limbs that everyone now uses. But she"s the only one with her machinery on the inside: her heart. Since the childhood operation, she has ticked. Like a clock, like a bomb. And as her community rebuilds, everyone is expected to contribute to the society"s good ... but how can Nell live up to her father"s revolutionary ideas when she has none of her own? Then she finds a lost mannequin"s hand while salvaging on the beach, and inspiration strikes. Can Nell build her own companion in a world that fears advanced technology? The deeper she sinks into this plan, the more she learns about her city--and her father, who is hiding secret experiments of his own. Sarah Maria Griffin"s haunting literary debut will entrance fans of Patrick Ness" Chaos Walking series, Paolo Bacigalupi"s Ship Breaker, and Emily St. John Mandel"s Station Eleven.
Edition Notes
Statement | Sarah Maria Griffin |
Classifications | |
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LC Classifications | PZ7.1.G754 Sp 2016 |
The Physical Object | |
Pagination | iii, 399 pages |
Number of Pages | 399 |
ID Numbers | |
Open Library | OL27222234M |
ISBN 10 | 0062408887 |
ISBN 10 | 9780062408884 |
LC Control Number | 2016947329 |
OCLC/WorldCa | 934884308 |
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Nell Crane has never held a boy’s hand. In a city devastated by an epidemic, where survivors are all missing parts—an arm, a leg, an eye—Nell has always been an outsider.
Her father is the famed scientist who created the biomechanical limbs that everyone now uses. But she’s the only one with her machinery on the inside: her heart. Since the Author: Sarah Maria Griffin. Spare and Found Parts (Hardcover) Spare and Found Parts (Hardcover) By Sarah Maria Griffin.
$ Special Order - Subject to Availability. Staff Reviews. Griffin’s fiction debut is beautiful and full of heart. It’s the story of loner-genius Nell Crane, the girl with the mechanical heart, who in a post-lapsarian city scrounges the parts.
Sarah Maria Griffin's first novel, Spare and Found Parts, was published by Titan Books in Spring and was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards that year.
Her second, Other Words For Smoke, arrived in April Her collection of essays about emigration, Not Lost, was published by New Island Press in /5(K).
Spare and Found Parts is a beautiful book. By page 40 it had me beyond emotionally invested. Its prose is striking and poetic, like the writer is speaking from her heart and directly to the hearts of others.
The protagonist is an intriguing anti-hero of a character. She can be selfish, impulsive, manipulative, but she is also lonely and /5(27). Spare and Found Parts was a complete impulse buy for me at an author event at Waterstones where author Sarah Maria Griffin was in attendance and a speaker.
Originally I didn’t really have any intention of picking up a copy of Spare and Found Parts (not out of any negative feeling, but because I’d never heard of the author before that night and my bank balance was already whimpering.
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Finally I have finished it, geez took me almost two weeks. Anyway my last read was Spare and Found Parts by Sarah Maria Griffin, it’s her debut novel I believe. Review: Spare and Found Parts by Sarah Maria Griffin Gosh, I'm unsure about this book.
It looks so gorgeous. And I was pretty excited about reading it when I got it in the mail. But then I read a review saying the boy wasn't good, that he was bad towards the girl and such, and so I.
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