Revolution Songs
£14.99
<p><b>Winner, Governor General’s Award for Fiction<br>Finalist, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award <br>Finalist, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize</b></p><p>A 16th-century belle turned Robinson Crusoe, a female Don Quixote with an Inuit Sancho Panza — this is the heroine of the novel that won the 2003 Governor General’s Award. <i>Elle</i> is a lusty, subversive riff on the discovery of the New World, the moment of first contact.</p> <p>Based on what might be a true story, the novel chronicles the ordeals and adventures of a young French woman marooned on the desolate Isle of Demons during Jacques Cartier’s ill-fated third and last attempt to colonize Canada.</p> <p>In this new readers’ guide edition, Douglas Glover’s carnal whirlwind of myth and story, of beauty and hilarity brings the past violently and unexpectedly into the present. His well-known scatological realism, exuberant violence, and dark, unsettling humour give his unique version of history a thoroughly modern chill.</p>
Douglas Glover was recipient of the 2006 Writers' Trust of Canada Timothy Findley Award for his body of work. His bestselling novel Elle won the Governor-General's Award and was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. A Guide to Animal Behaviour was a finalist for the 1991 Governor-General's Award, and 16 Categories of Desire was shortlisted for the 2000 Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Award.
- ISBN-13
- 9780864924926
- Publisher
- Goose Lane Editions
- Imprint
- Goose Lane Editions
- Publication date
- 7 September 2007
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 226
- Dimensions
- 216 x 140 mm
- Language
- English
