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Product Details: White Bone
| Author: | Barbara Gowdy |
| Format: | Paperback: 336 pages. |
| Publisher: | Picador (06/01/2000) |
| ISBN: | 0312264127 |
| ISBN13: | 9780312264123 |
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Pro Reviews: White Bone
From the enormously gifted Gowdy, a mesmerizing journey into the heart of Africa and a maternal society of elephants slipping rapidly into extinction....Gowdy has created an astonishingly moving saga.
Gowdy brilliantly imbues these uncommon characters with wrenching emotions. Even though the elephants clash over how to survive, their relationships are intimate, romantic, and sometimes traumatic. There's a warmth in Gowdy's writing that can only stem from the certainty that there is wondrousness in the most derelict and unexpected circumstances--that life in all forms is awesome. Writing from the point of view of animals is a very concrete way of expressing that: of turning your back on the belief that humans hold the exclusive rights to important experience, to the business of making the world right.
Publisher Notes: White Bone
- A thrilling journey into the minds of African elephants as they struggle to survive.
If, as many recent nonfiction bestsellers have revealed, animals possess emotions and awareness, they must also have stories. In "The White Bone, a novel imagined entirely from the perspective of African elephants, Barbara Gowdy creates a world whole and separate that yet illuminates our own.
For years, young Mud and her family have roamed the high grasses, swamps, and deserts of the sub-Sahara. Now the earth is scorched by drought, and the mutilated bodies of family and friends lie scattered on the ground, shot down by ivory hunters. Nothing-not the once familiar terrain, or the age-old rhythms of life, or even memory itself-seems reliable anymore. Yet a slim prophecy of hope is passed on from water hole to water hole: the sacred white bone of legend will point the elephants toward the Safe Place. And so begins a quest through Africa's vast and perilous plains-until at last the survivors face a decisive trial of loyalty and courage.
In The White Bone, Barbara Gowdy performs a feat of imagination virtually unparalleled in modern fiction. Plunged into an alien landscape, we orient ourselves in elephant time, elephant space, elephant consciousness and begin to feel, as Gowdy puts it, "what it would be like to be that big and gentle, to be that imperiled, and to have that prodigious memory."
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