The White Bone is a novel published by the Canadian author Barbara Gowdy in In telling the story of African elephants with adult, anthropomorphized personalities, the book bears a striking resemblance to Richard Adams' Watership Down, only with elephants instead of rabbits. Gowdy's extensive research on elephant behavior heavily informed the creation of the elephant culture and world-building she . 7 rows · · Barbara Gowdy's The White Bone (), a kind of tragic epic of African elephants narrated Brand: Picador. The White Bone. by Barbara Gowdy. In two of her previous novels, Falling Angels and Mr. Sandman, Barbara Gowdy made hay with the post-war suburban family. She took on the wonky intricacies of that familiar planet with the parsing zeal of a renegade physicist who hums “It Ain’t Necessarily So” while cheerfully recalibrating the speed of light. An oblique and refreshing optic, humour, irony, compassion, Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins.
Barbara Gowdy's The White Bone (), a kind of tragic epic of African elephants narrated from the perspective of the elephants, undertakes to cross the boundary between species in an extraordinarily visceral, sensuous, and poetic rendering of language unparalleled in contemporary literature. 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. Barbara Gowdy is the author of seven books, including Helpless, The Romantic, The White Bone, Mister Sandman, We So Seldom Look on Love and Falling Angels, all of which have been met with widespread international acclaim and critical praise. She has been a finalist three times for the Governor General's Award and the Rogers Writers' Trust.
The White Bone. by Barbara Gowdy. In two of her previous novels, Falling Angels and Mr. Sandman, Barbara Gowdy made hay with the post-war suburban family. She took on the wonky intricacies of that familiar planet with the parsing zeal of a renegade physicist who hums “It Ain’t Necessarily So” while cheerfully recalibrating the speed of light. An oblique and refreshing optic, humour, irony, compassion, a fond regard for the eccentric, an imagination that is rare in its generosity and. The White Bone is a Canadian novel written by Barbara Gowdy and published by HarperCollins in It was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in Sometimes compared to Richard Adams 's Watership Down, it is an adult fantasy story about animals—in this case, African elephants —in a realistic natural setting but given the ability to speak to one another throughout the book. The White Bone is a poignant novel about the effects of poaching on the behavior and psyche of African elephants and how human interference and natural disasters combine to threaten elephants’ existence. Our protagonists, Mud and Date Bed, are two young female elephants struggling to survive a drought.
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