The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy
A classic, moving quest of elephants, memory and the will to survive.‘The White Bone dramatises its creatures with what is both affection and a kind of mournful desperationThis is, afterall, a story of a species hunted nearly to its end. What saves it from archness is a vein of stunning and melancholy lyricism married to brutality. Images in Gowdy’s fiction sear themselves, moving or terrible, maddeningly unforgettable, onto the reader’s brain.’
Scotsman
‘Inspired imagination and research have created a marvel of a book. In The White Bone, the language, social structure, intellectual and spritiual world of elephants are as real as the fabric of human life. Absolutely compelling.’
Alice Munro
Barbara Gowdy is the award-winning author of a collection of short stories, We So Seldom Look on Love (the title story was filmed as Kissed), and three previous novels, the most recent of which is Mister Sandman, also published by Flamingo. She lives in Canada.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780007291571 |
| ISBN 10 | 0007291574 |
| Title | The White Bone |
| Author | Barbara Gowdy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2008-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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