The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy
Mud is an infant elephant, orphaned at birth and blessed with visionary powers. At a crowded waterhole in a bad drought, ivory poachers find them and Mud, now an adolescent and pregnant with her first calf, sets out with the wounded and traumatized survivors in search of the injured.
'Inspired imagination and research have created a marvel of a bookIn The White Bone, the language, social structure, intellectual and spiritual world of elephants are as real as the fabric of human life. Absolutely compelling.' Alice Munro 'Barbara Gowdy is beginning to claim a place alongside those other major Canadian writers, Margaret Atwood, Carol Shields and Alice Munro... The White Bone is a tour de force, compelling and always absorbing, not least because, while it humanizes the elephants, it also acknowledges their distance from us, and allows them the dignity of difference.' Times Literary Supplement
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780006551546 |
| ISBN 10 | 0006551548 |
| Title | The White Bone |
| Author | Barbara Gowdy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2000-05-02 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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