Elle

by Douglas Glover

Book Overview

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. Elle is a lusty, subversive riff on the discovery of the New World, the moment of first contact.

Based on what might be a true...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0864924925
• ISBN13: 9780864924926
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 4.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Fantastic! If you liked Life of Pi this book is a must.

Elle chronicles the unbelievable story of a French woman's first contact with the New World during Cartier's third and last attempt to colonize Canada. She's marooned on the desolate "Isle de Demons" on the coast of Newfoundland where a heartwrenching yet wondous experience awaits her. I haven't been this engrossed by a book in ages. It's raw and richly imaginative, yet manages to provide a historical picture of what it must have been like to live in Canada in the 1540's. At times hilarious, and other times breathtakingly beautiful, this is the kind of book you won't want to put down until it's finished, and when it's finished you might just be inclined to read it again.