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Elle: A Novel (2003)

door Douglas Glover

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Winner, Governor General's Award for Fiction Shortlisted, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and Commonwealth Writers' Prize 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. Elleis a lusty, subversive riff on the discovery of the New World, the moment of first contact. 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. 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.… (meer)
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What do you do with a headstrong girl in the 1500s? Elle's father's response was to send her to New France. The ship's captain (her uncle)'s response was to abandon her on an island with her nurse, and her tennis-player lover.

This is a story of survival. After the death of her two companions, Elle finds herself alone and pregnant, with minimal supplies in a harsh, unforgiving climate.

This story is very mystical with many aboriginal myths and beliefs woven into Elle's reality. It is also very earthy and lusty....Elle is a strong woman who remains true to herself and her beliefs. A fascinating, original perspective on survival in the new world. ( )
  LynnB | Apr 24, 2015 |
Glowing reviews by people like Wayne Johnson should have warded me off this book- but I liked the quirkiness of it. I pulled it from bookshelf in NFLD- part of the appeal—This book- supposedly a memoir is the historical fictional account of a temptress-- a headstrong French woman- left stranded on a deserted rocky isle with her lover, her nurse. She gives birth to a deformed child- alone after losing both nurse and tennis playing lover – woefully undersupplied and unprepared for the hardships- she encounters a Beothuck man who helps her survive- is taken in by an elderly Indian medicine woman and later returns to France.—a very odd book—but kind of neat. ( )
  HelenGress | Sep 23, 2012 |
A few months ago I came across a copy of Douglas Glover's Precious, a novel I had always been meaning to read. I found it an utter delight, a Canadian hard-boiled noir that ranks with the best of Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald. Thus emboldened, I picked up a copy of Elle, somehow expecting more of the same.

Witness my shock, then, at Elle, which is about as far at odds with Precious' subject matter as you can get. Imagine discovering that Dashiell Hammett also wrote Naval histories; that weird.

And double my shock at this; Elle is very likely a masterpiece, a breathtaking, bold, coarse, witty, sexy, mythic, and scatological take on Canadian history unlike any historical novel I have ever read. Keep in mind I'm not a historical fiction type of guy, all told, but still: wow. This may be my favourite historical novel of all time.

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  ShelfMonkey | Nov 18, 2010 |
Excellent novel, actually read this in one sitting as I could not put it down. Douglas Glover's unique writing style is captivating while at times brutally harsh and others remarkably funny. ( )
  LouCypher | Dec 15, 2009 |
The best weird novel I've ever read. ( )
  addressunknown | Nov 27, 2007 |
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Douglas Gloverprimaire auteuralle editiesberekend
Gagné, PaulVertalerSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
Saint-Martin, LoriVertalerSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd

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Winner, Governor General's Award for Fiction Shortlisted, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and Commonwealth Writers' Prize 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. Elleis a lusty, subversive riff on the discovery of the New World, the moment of first contact. 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. 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.

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