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Fiction Literary

The White Bone

A Novel

by (author) Barbara Gowdy

Publisher
HarperCollins Canada
Initial publish date
Mar 2011
Category
Literary
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781443400794
    Publish Date
    Mar 2011
    List Price
    $11.99
  • CD-Audio

    ISBN
    9781543678765
    Publish Date
    Jan 2018
    List Price
    $21.99

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Description

If elephants could tell just one story, it would be the story of Mud, a young elephant cow orphaned at birth and blessed with visionary powers. Mud’s life on the African plain is changed forever when she and her adopted family are forced by prolonged drought to linger at one of the few remaining watering holes. The herd is ambushed there by ivory poachers, who kill almost all the cows and their young. The traumatized survivors, including a pregnant Mud, set out in search of the talismanic white bone that can lead them to a paradise free from human savagery.

About the author

Barbara Gowdy is an award-winning author whose five previous books, The Romantic, The White Bone, Mister Sandman, We So Seldom Look On Love and Falling Angels, have appeared on bestseller lists throughout the world. The recipient of the Marian Engel Award in 1996, she has been a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and a repeat finalist for the Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award, the Trillium Award and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. She lives in Toronto.

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