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	Northwest Passages - Author Profile: Barbara Gowdy
		Barbara Gowdy was born in Windsor in 1950 but grew up in the Toronto suburb of Don Mills, having moved there with her family in 1954.
		Amazingly, though, Gowdy skillfully manages to divert these tales away from the shocking and sensational, foregrounding the sympathetic and moving qualities of these characters Ð who include a necrophiliac, an exhibitionist, and a woman with four legs Ð so that by the end of the stories their situations seem somehow to be comprehensible, even normal.
		Gowdy's most recent novel, The White Bone, is again a daring work of fiction, but one which takes her off in an altogether different direction.
	www.nwpassages.com /bios/gowdy.asp (734 words)

	Review: The Romantic by Barbara Gowdy \| Special Reports \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		The Romantic is Canadian novelist Barbara Gowdy's sixth book: it inhabits a world adjacent to, if not contiguous with, that of the fiction of her countrywomen Margaret Atwood and Carol Shields.
		Gowdy, in her acknowledgements, thanks various experts whom she consulted on the subject of alcoholism: this, to my mind, expresses perfectly the modern fiction-writer's wrong turning, which is to proffer assurances of professionalism as a means of abandoning all pretences to artistic merit.
		Gowdy writes wittily and sometimes well, but life is not something that becomes literature by a process of deciphering its coincidences and then arranging them back to front, so that you end with a sensation of thinking something is true simply because you were told it at the beginning.
	books.guardian.co.uk /bookerprize2003/story/0,13819,1019808,00.html (733 words)

	Watershed Book Cafe - Response to Barbara Gowdy's The White Bone - A Novel
		Response to Barbara Gowdy's The White Bone by Linda Tiessen Wiebe.
		Gowdy makes me think that to become concerned for the environment is a much more whole task than merely activism.
		Thank you Barbara Gowdy, for allowing it to speak to humans through the lives of the elephants.
	www.watershedonline.ca /community/bookcafe/bcwhitebone.shtml (996 words)

	'The business of invoking humanity': Barbara Gowdy and the Fiction Gone (A)stray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In addition, Gowdy introduces a grotesque element which contributes with its visible 'snapping of limbs': the armless final protagonist of 'Body and Soul,' the extirpation of the redundant body in 'Sylvie' and of the redundant head in 'The Two-Headed Man,' dreams of dissection, accidental and purposeful mutilation, arthritic bodies, organ transplants, and anatomical asymmetry.
		Gowdy's stories turn on the axis which is at the centre of the grotesque and of the short story: the crisis is seen as paradigmatic of human experience.
		Gowdy's characters strive to form part of an ongoing pattern connecting the past to the future, but their own bodies and behaviour speak against this possibility.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/723/723_lerena.html (7536 words)

	Barbara Gowdy, Mister Sandman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Barbara Gowdy's quirky novel Mister Sandman features a cluster of original and off-kilter characters who are intriguing if not entirely lovable.
		Gowdy is a remarkable writer, creating realistic characters whose flaws may be distasteful but who are as real as the person next door -- or in the next room.
		Gowdy grabs your attention and refuses to let go, her complex artistry of plot and characterization pulling you from page to page.
	www.rambles.net /gowdy_sandman.html (391 words)

	Eye Weekly - books - 09.10.98
		Toronto writer Barbara Gowdy's fiction, marked by outlandish plotlines about secret sex lives, is already known for its audacity -- but with her new novel The White Bone, she's outdone herself.
		Gowdy's unusual novel seems unfairly diminished by such a synopsis, although in the early pages the narrative tends to clunk along alarmingly, with lots of exposition (including footnotes and a mostly superfluous glossary).
		Whether Gowdy is imagining the tics and twitches of mongooses, crafting an elephant mythology with gentle humor or waxing existential, The White Bone is a pleasure.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_09.10.98/art/books10.html (753 words)

	Amazon.com: The White Bone: A Novel: Books: Barbara Gowdy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Afflicted by premonitions and obsessed with memory and safety, these animals have terms that range from the formal to the low, the metaphorical to the deeply physical: the "Eternal Shoreless Water" is oblivion, a "sting" is a bullet, and a "flow-stick" a snake.
		Gowdy's story brings this horrific treatment to life for the reader - but she also gives us a moving portrait of some of the most gentle, non-aggressive creatures on the planet.
		Gowdy's choice of speaking to the human condition through the medium of an extended family of elephants is unusual, to say the least, but ultimately rewarding.
	www.amazon.com /White-Bone-Novel-Barbara-Gowdy/dp/0312264127 (2657 words)

	AMERICAS SOCIETY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Gowdy thus switches from the form of the quest to a more personal story whose plot hinges not on struggle with external elements but on a more morally ambiguous struggle.
		Gowdy also demystifies the story by grounding it in the present, as indicated by the inclusion of modern-day objects.
		In her ending Gowdy addresses both the strands of the larger-than-life epic and the individual story of Mud, closing on an image of the plain washed in white sunlight that augurs survival for the She Ones and absolution for Mud.
	www.americas-society.org /as/literature/br67gronlund.html (1079 words)

	Barbara Gowdy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in Windsor, Ontario, she is married to poet Christopher Dewdney and resides in Toronto.
		In the novel and movie, the family spend two weeks trapped in the bomb shelter as an "exercise" rather than going on a family trip to Disneyland.
		Gowdy's novel The White Bone is written from the perspective of an elephant.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barbara_Gowdy (468 words)

	Zoocheck Canada Inc. - Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Barbara Gowdy was born in Windsor, Ontario in 1950, but grew up in Toronto.
		Gowdy worked in musical theatre, the securities industry, and as an editor for the publishing firm Lester and Orphen Dennys.
		Gowdy's latest work, The White Bone, chronicles the story of Mud, a young African elephant cow, whose vision guides her and her family to a "safe place" away from the ivory poachers.
	www.zoocheck.com /events/gowdy.shtml (180 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Barbara Gowdy
		Barbara Gowdy's work, THE WHITE BONE, is being praised for its "audacious concept, inspired characterization and poignant message." It is the story of Mud, a young African elephant cow, whose courage and visionary powers guide her and her kin to a safe place away from the ivory poachers.
		Gowdy witnessed the real-life quest for survival on which this story is based, traveling to Kenya to study elephant behavior.
		Imagine the idea of never being able to forget...this is one of the themes that Barbara Gowdy ponders in her original novel, THE WHITE BONE, a book told only through the eyes of elephants.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-gowdy-barbara.asp (2307 words)

	village voice > books > The White Bone: Gowdy's pachydermaled punches by Natasha Stovall
		Gowdy's laboratory in The White Bone, her fourth novel, is the She-S family, a matriarchal elephant clan struggling to survive both a killing drought and an onslaught of ivory poachers.
		Gowdy speaks from the minds of the elephants themselves, inventing a language that references their surroundings as she imagines they appear.
		Gowdy is not interested in the golden children, but rather the tarnished eccentrics who use their "defects" as boons.
	www.villagevoice.com /books/9920,stovall,5864,10.html (1040 words)

	Barbara Gowdy, The White Bone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Barbara Gowdy creates an intense and complex culture for African elephants, replete with ritual and mythology, in The White Bone.
		Mud is an adoptive member of the She-S's family, a matriarchal group of "she-ones," the universal term in her language for all elephants.
		After Mud's family is attacked, she and the survivors begin the search for the bone, and for Date Bed, who has been separated from the family.
	www.rambles.net /gowdy_whitebone.html (394 words)

	Montreal Mirror - Books : The Romantic
		The similarities and differences between Barbara Gowdy and the mother she creates for the narrator of her latest novel, The Romantic, are intriguing.
		Gowdy is sort of the Grace Kelly of Canadian fiction.
		Dark as her vision is, however, Gowdy has such acute empathy for her characters, her fiction can be almost unbearably painful.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/2003/040303/books2.html (634 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: Lies and Whispers
		Sandman, her third novel, cocks a snoot at conventions, both moral and literary, and is so brilliantly crafted and flat-out fun to read that she makes jubilant sinners of us all.
		Gowdy's humor dwells not in one-liners, but in acute variations of tone and attitude.
		In her descriptions of these hidden passions, Gowdy's lyric use of ordinary language takes on a sensuality so sympathetic that the reader is led inevitably to suspect that these propensities may not be the darker side of the Canary clan at all, but their radiant best.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/reviews/sandman.htm (779 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - The Romantic by Barbara Gowdy
		Barbara Gowdy's sixth novel introduces us to the idealistic and impulsive Louise Kirk, the romantic of the book's title, whose lonely fantasies as a young girl lead her to love but also to unbearable heartache.
		In Louise, Gowdy has created a character who is passionate and impulsive but also obsessive and jealous.
		She is so much in love with Abel that he becomes her life and, even when he breaks her heart, she believes that she cannot be happy without him.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2003/0922/gowdyb.html (393 words)

	The Romantic, Barbara Gowdy
		"Once again, in The Romantic, Barbara Gowdy reminds us of the crucial importance of passion, as her characters negotiate back and forth across the years and across the continent.
		Louise is a fascinating and complicated heroine and, in Gowdy's lustrous prose, every page of her journey is absorbing and suspenseful.
		Barbara Gowdy is the author of six previous books, including The White Bone (Picador 0-312-26412-7), Mister Sandman, and We So Seldom Look on Love.
	www.henryholt.com /holt/romantic.htm (400 words)

	Scary-Crayon: Barbara Gowdy's _The White Bone_
		It is very interesting indeed that, in Gowdy's Africa, every different creature seems to think itself the ideal, as evidenced in their names for their species.
		And while Gowdy's fictional anthropology is interesting enough in itself, what makes it even more compelling is that much of it appears to be based on research and the actual habits of elephants.
		In conclusion, Barbara Gowdy's The White Bone is an interesting tale on a number of levels and is more than worthy of a place in your personal library.
	www.scary-crayon.com /print/whitebone (1109 words)

	The White Bone, by Barbara Gowdy, Reading Group Guide, Henry Holt and Company Publishers of Quality Books
		She finds herself at the center of a desperate quest for the White Bone: an object of mythic power that if found might lead the herd to safety and survival.
		Barbara Gowdy is the author of five previous books, including Mister Sandman, We So Seldom Look on Love, and Falling Angels, all of which have met with widespread international acclaim and critical praise.
		Gowdy's elephants are astonishingly embodied, their world made up of vivid sensory particulars and depicted with precise naturalistic realism.
	www.henryholt.com /readingguides/gowdy.htm (822 words)

	Quill & Quire
		And she canât resist loving said squirrel, though she is an ardent gardener and I have never, until now, met a gardener who didnât fantasize the most exquisite of medieval tortures for those pesky and persistent rodents.
		Beth recalls a trip they took to Africa, with Bethâs two boys, when Barbara was researching The White Bone (a novel told from the viewpoint of African elephants), and how she was better than the native guides at identifying the birds and animals they saw.
		Those readers who find, in The Romantic, signs that Barbara Gowdy is abandoning the weird and celebrating the normal will be guilty of a serious mis-read.
	www.quillandquire.com /authors/profile.cfm?article_id=2564 (1750 words)

	Writers On Writing with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett
		Writers on Writing is a weekly radio program hosted by journalist and author Barbara DeMarco-Barrett.
		Each Thursday at 5pm Pacific, writers, poets and literary agents join her.
		Barbara’s first book, Pen on Fire: The Busy Woman’s Guide to Igniting the Writer Within, is available from Harcourt/ Harvest Books.
	www.barbarademarcobarrett.com /writersonwriting/index.html (370 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Romantic: Livres: Barbara Gowdy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sandman; etc), Gowdy's imagination blazed new trails, melding bizarre characters into memorable situations.
		This novel is as beautifully written as its predecessors, but more traditional than the Canadian writer's usual fiction.
		Louise's need to have Abel create the world for her resonates with unfulfilled passion.
	www.amazon.fr /Romantic-Barbara-Gowdy/dp/0007156278 (603 words)

	Book Reviews - The Romantic by Barbara Gowdy
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		Louise, however, seems determined that her love can save him.
		Barbara Gowdy's novel is a retelling of the ancient story of the doomed lovers Abelard and Heloise set in modern Canada.
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /the_romantic (201 words)

	Barbara Gowdy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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