{"title":"Mark Dunn","description":"Mark Dunn is the author of seven novels and more than thirty full-length plays. Belles and Five Tellers Dancing in the Rain have together received over 150 productions throughout the world, and Dunn has been the recipient of several national playwriting awards. Currently the playwright-in-residence with the New Jersey Repertory Company and the Community Theatre League in Williamsport, PA, he lives in Santa Fe, NM.","products":[{"product_id":"ibid-paperback","title":"IBID - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eOnly Mark Dunn, author of the acclaimed Ella Minnow Pea, would attempt to write a novel entirely in footnotes-and succeed so triumphantly. Ibid is the off-the-wall fictional biography of Jonathan Blashette, a three-legged circus performer and deodorant entrepreneur. Dunn, a character in his own novel, is Blashette's esteemed biographer. But when Dunn's editor destroys the manuscript in an unfortunate bathtub accident, all that remains are the footnotes, which they arrange to publish in a consummate portrait of Blashette's strangely hilarious life story, one that offers some infinitely interesting morsels of American cultural history. Of course, as endnotes go, these are the tidbits, the marginalia: snippets of commentary, correspondence, court transcripts, song lyrics, and even a recipe for Boston baked beans. But in the topsy-turvy world of Ibid, the footnotes tell the truest story of all. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnbearably hilarious. Los Angeles Times \u003cbr\u003eAfter his editor's son accidentally drowns the sole copy of his latest manuscript in the bathtub, Mark Dunn (a character in his own novel) makes the best of a bad situation. He will tell the story of three-legged circus performer-cum-deodorant magnate and humanitarian Jonathan Blashette through the only part of the text that survives: the footnotes. The result is a riotous and irreverent romp through recent history that finds in the margins of a fictitious life a surprisingly revealing angle on who and what we consider newsworthy, and why. \u003cbr\u003e As fun and non-nutritious as picking the most buttery kernels of popcorn out of the bowl. TIME OUT NEW YORK \u003cbr\u003e If you re looking for a book with an original, offbeat resume, a book that will entertain and amuse, Ibid will do the job! THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS \u003cbr\u003eMark Dunn, the author of Ella Minnow Pea and Welcome to Higby. Originally from Memphis, he now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369157886175,"sku":"9780156031004","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/oqYn_eef2G9780156031004.webp?v=1789139258"},{"product_id":"ella-minnow-pea-a-novel-in-letters-paperback","title":"Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElla 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow 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 \u003ci\u003eBee Season\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eElla 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. \u003cbr\u003e*pangram: a sentence or phrase that includes all the letters of the alphabet\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369800171743,"sku":"9780385722438","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/KZmU81Zc-G9780385722438.webp?v=1789146644"},{"product_id":"ella-minnow-pea-20th-anniversary-illustrated-edition-hardcover","title":"Ella Minnow Pea: 20th Anniversary Illustrated Edition - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this special anniversary edition, Mark Dunn is joined by talented illustrator Brittany Worsham in an illuminating, beloved story relating to language and freedom and human dignity in an era of political oppression.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published by MacAdam\/Cage in 2001, Mark Dunn's novel \u003ci\u003eElla Minnow Pea\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates its twentieth anniversary under the roof of Penguin\/Random House and the British publisher Methuen. Over the years it has become a mainstay of book clubs and middle-school and high-school English classes, has inspired a stage musical \u003ci\u003eLMNOP\u003c\/i\u003e, and is the recipient of multiple accolades, including winning the 2001 Borders Original Voices competition for fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet on a fictional island off the coast of South Carolina, \u003ci\u003eElla Minnow Pea\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers to the homeland of the late Nevin Nollop, the inventor of the pangram \"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.\" Lionized for this achievement, he's been honored with a monument featuring this famous phrase. But life for Nollopians drastically changes when the tile containing the letter \"z\" topples from the statue and island authorities interpret the fall as a message from Nollop from beyond the grave. They waste no time in banning this letter from all use. As other tiles fall, additional laws are passed which put increasing communicational constraints on the islanders, and ultimately undermine all the freedoms they had heretofore taken for granted. It is up to a young woman named Ella to restore order and sanity to the nation of Nollop, using the very tools used by Mr. Nollop to win the day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders, both longtime fans of the book and those newly discovering its power and literary merit, will cherish this special keepsake edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51374257930463,"sku":"9781950539611","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/H3b0VHLnqF9781950539611.webp?v=1789175662"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/mark-dunn.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}