Category: Apple Blossom-a story that seduces you
Genre: Fiction
This one is for the bibliophiles. The logophiles. The readers who enjoy the magic of good writing. The writers who delight in the power of being lost in a good story.
Ella Minnow Pea is about a town that reveres the sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” Dedicating their life to the man who created the sentence, the town has hung the phrase in the town square. But when one day a letter falls, the town leaders decry that no one must use that letter any longer. More tiles fall and more letters are removed from speech. The brilliant part is that as letters are taken Dunn stops using them to tell the story!
This book is for those who marvel at the sentence for using all the letters of the alphabet. This book is for those who vaguely remember the sentence but are intrigued that this is the one sentence that has survived through the ages; surely there must be others? This one is for readers who like a bit of wit in their writing. For writers who seek out strong characters. For readers who might revel in a satire about what happens when the government is ruled by religious fanaticism and why people would willingly give up their freedom of speech. For writers who are intrigued by Dunn’s explanation of how speech evolves when the alphabet is diminished to “L, M, N, O P.” And for everyone who is ready to cheer on Ella as she saves the day.
Elegance Press 