{"id":110,"date":"2013-08-13T23:37:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T23:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglasglover.net\/?page_id=110"},"modified":"2017-09-14T06:38:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T10:38:52","slug":"elle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/?page_id=110","title":{"rendered":"Elle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"443\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/?attachment_id=443\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0014.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"302,480\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;HP Scanjet 4800&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"scan0014\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0014.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0014.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-443\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 40px;\" title=\"Elle\" src=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0014.jpg\" alt=\"Douglas Glover\" width=\"302\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a>Governor-General&#8217;s Award Jury Citation<\/h3>\n<p><em>This headlong, intense interior monologue combines humour, horror and brutality with intelligence and linguistic dexterity to forge a revised creation myth for the New World.<\/em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Winner, Governor General\u2019s Award for Fiction, 2003<\/li>\n<li>Finalist, IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award<\/li>\n<li>Editors\u2019 pick: Amazon.ca Best Books of 2003<\/li>\n<li><i>Globe and Mail<\/i> Top 100 books, 2003<\/li>\n<li><i>The <\/i><i>Vancouver<\/i><i> Sun<\/i> Top-seven list, 2003<\/li>\n<li><i>Georgia Straight<\/i> Top twelve books of 2003 (top six fiction)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">National Bestseller<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Independent Booksellers bestseller list, Nov., Dec., Jan. Dec. 2003, Jan. 2004<\/li>\n<li><i>Globe and Mail<\/i> bestseller list<br \/>\nDecember<\/li>\n<li><i>Toronto<\/i><i> Star<\/i> bestseller list<br \/>\nDecember<\/li>\n<li><i>Maclean\u2019s<\/i> bestseller list<br \/>\nDecember<\/li>\n<li><i>Edmonton<\/i><i> Journal<\/i> bestseller list<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"435\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/?attachment_id=435\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0013.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"315,480\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;HP Scanjet 4800&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"scan0013\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0013.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0013.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-435 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 40px;\" title=\"Elle\" src=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0013.jpg\" alt=\"Douglas Glover\" width=\"315\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0013.jpg 315w, https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0013-111x170.jpg 111w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a>\u201c[Glover] begins here, at the very birth canal of the nation state we know as Canada, with this shadowy improbable event\/non-event, and brings to the pages of his new novel, <i>Elle<\/i>, a character so torched with life, suffering, humour, and wisdom that she should be depicted on our flag . . . [Elle is] a maginificent hail Mary of pure imagination . . . a ribald, raunchy wit with a talent for searing self-investigation . . . Glover\u2019s prose throughout, while being consistent in voice, is also a rich blend of elegance and punch, raw affect and slippery allusion.\u201d (<i>The Globe and Mail<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Glover\u2019s Elle, or Marguerite de Roberval, is a magnificent hail Mary of pure imagination: a child of the Enlightenment also versed in Hellenist philosophy and Gallic folk wisdom; a ferociously lustful and free-spirited appetite; a standing code for life when it\u2019s lived between worlds; but also a ribald, raunchy wit with a talent for searing self-investigation. Glover\u2019s prose throughout, while consistent in voice, is also a rich blend of elegance and punch, raw effect and slippery allusion.\u201d (<em>Globe and Mail 100<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLascivious, bizarre, entertaining . . . Glover has a wonderful facility for imagery, language, farce, and the grotesque.\u201d (<i>Quill &amp; Quire<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKnotty, intelligent, often raucously funny and always experimental . . . <i>The Life and Times of Captain N.<\/i> is considered a CanLit classic, and his newest, <i>Elle<\/i>, is just as good.\u201d (Brian Bethune, <i>Maclean\u2019s<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDouglas Glover imagines our history as no one else can . . . <i>Elle <\/i>also persuades us as a meditation on Canada, which Glover does very well . . . Equal to [<i>Solomon Gursky<\/i>] in its contribution to Canadian mythography.\u201d (Philip Marchand, <i>Toronto<\/i><i> Star<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"436\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/?attachment_id=436\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0017.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"287,480\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;HP Scanjet 4800&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"scan0017\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0017.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0017.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-436 alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 40px;\" title=\"Le Pas de l'Ourse\" src=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0017.jpg\" alt=\"Douglas Glover\" width=\"287\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0017.jpg 287w, https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0017-101x170.jpg 101w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/a>\u201cLusty, lively and lascivious . . . magical, dreamy ambiguities . . . a delightfully ironic and wickedly funny voice, utterly feminine, anachronistic, post-modern . . . Glover has a field day casting aspersions on contemporary realities and imbuing his action-packed text with sharp, sassy wisecrackery . . . With this sexy, spirited, rip-roaring creature, Glover casts a dramatic phantasmagorical new sheen on a chapter in Canadian history that until now has been shrouded in murk.\u201d (<i>Toronto<\/i><i> Sun<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA juicy page-turner . . . a deliciously ironic, often frankly erotic 205-page interior monologue . . . Rabelaisian history that rocks.\u201d (Pat Donnelly, <i>Montreal Gazette<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA ribald, rollicking, Rabelaisian, risqu\u00e9, riveting novel . . . Who would have thought a novel set on an island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 1542 could be so damn much fun to read?\u201d (<i>Vancouver Sun<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA rivetting tale of adventure and survival as well as a novel of ideas about religion, sexual politics, colonization and language.\u201d (<i>The Ottawa Citizen<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuperb in mingling historical context, narrative, and especially the discordance between native American and European spirituality . . . both gorgeously descriptive of the ice-bound eastern coast of Canada and funny . . . Her survival throughout and its aftermath back in France illuminate three subjects less skilful authors might take on only singly: the encounter between Christian Europeans and the animist aboriginal North Americans; the way place shapes people and peoples; and the tiny spaces in which women and thinkers were trapped in pre-enlightenment times . . . A packed read, delivering imagery, history, humour, and wonderfully creative writing.\u201d (<i>The <\/i><i>Edmonton<\/i><i> Journal<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"447\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/?attachment_id=447\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0015.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"302,480\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;HP Scanjet 4800&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Le Pas de l&#8217;Ourse\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0015.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0015.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-447 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 40px;\" title=\"Le Pas de l'Ourse\" src=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0015.jpg\" alt=\"Douglas Glover\" width=\"302\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a>\u201cRevisits Canadian history in charming, unusual ways [headline] A raunchy romp through the Canadian wilderness . . . Enriched with a wickedly smart narrative, and a post-modern, wise-cracking approach to history . . . The situations [are] both tragic and endearing, and the narrative is peppered with great sidebars about the future of Canadian literature and the revisioning of history (the real savages, as we all know, were the Europeans) . . . a bold and unique rendition of Canadian history.\u201d (<i>The <\/i><i>Calgary<\/i><i> Herald<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLusty, lively and lascivious . . . Canadian history was never so raucous and ribald . . . a delightfully ironic and wickedly funny voice, utterly feminine, anachronistic, post-modern . . . Glover has a field-day casting aspersions on contemporary realities and imbuing his action-packed text with sharp, sassy wise-crackery . . .\u00a0 With this sexy, spirited, rip-roaring creature, Glover casts a dramatic, phantasmagorical new sheen on a chapter in Canadian history that until now has been shrouded in murk.\u201d (<i>The <\/i><i>London<\/i><i> Free Press<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA cross between Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders . . . <i>Elle <\/i>the book and Elle the girl both have a tremendous energy, a galloping, brawling liveliness.\u201d (<i>The <\/i><i>St. John\u2019s<\/i><i> Telegram<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDouglas Glover is a very serious writer. He\u2019s also a wickedly, belligerently, intelligently funny writer with a scatological gift worthy of Rabelais . . . More to the point, he\u2019s one of our most exuberant literary leg-pullers, a postmodern Jekyll and Hyde . . . <i>Elle<\/i> unfolds like a mad Creation myth dreamed by a French Eve, a Robinson Crusoe in drag, banished to Paradise, otherwise known as Canada . . . Glover\u2019s so-called historical novels are simultaneously so much less and so much more. They are meditative literary pastiches that offer radically alternative views of what Canadians and, safe to say, the rest of the world, conventionally view as our history . . . In Glover\u2019s fevered creative imagination, the colonization of the New World is not only a clash of cultures, old and new, European and indigenous, with their conflicting languages, histories, customs, mores, values and such, but a clash of mythological world views, a clash of dreams and visions. For, at bottom, Douglas Glover is a dreamer, bravely dreaming forward the dream that is Canada into the next millennium.\u201d\u00a0 (Robert Reid, <i>Kitchener-Waterloo<\/i> <i>Record<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"437\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/?attachment_id=437\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0019.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"303,480\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;HP Scanjet 4800&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"scan0019\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0019.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0019.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-437 alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 40px;\" title=\"Ona\" src=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0019.jpg\" alt=\"Douglas Glover\" width=\"242\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0019.jpg 303w, https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0019-107x170.jpg 107w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a>\u201cA historical novel with a postmodern heart . . . <i>Elle <\/i>occupies a frozen nether world between fantasy and reality . . . [Glover\u2019s] prose is deliciously bawdy, his tone lively and hilarious.\u201d (<i>The <\/i><i>Winnipeg<\/i><i> Free Press<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSentence for sentence, <i>Elle<\/i> was the most exciting book of fiction I read this year, not only because of Glover\u2019s felicity with language, but because of the ideas he explores with singular brilliance.\u201d (<i>The <\/i><i>Guelph<\/i><i> Mercury<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA gripping and vivid romp through Marguerite\u2019s quite incredible adventures, seen through the prism of the author\u2019s wild imagination . . . This is not a book for the faint-hearted or the squeamish . . . <i>Elle<\/i> has much to say about the nature of religious experience and morality, about the concepts of exile and courage, for those of us who want some eat in our reading. It\u2019s also a hell of a lot of fun to read, if, like, me, you tend to flip to the naughty bits first. And it\u2019s based in Canadian history \u2014 what could be better?\u201d (<i>The Danforth Review<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA riot of a riff on that moment in Canada\u2019s past when cultures collided in the New World . . . in hallucinatory prose . . . The story may be just a bit of mythic folklore, or it may be true \u2013 Glover&#8217;s done a ton of work to get the historical detail right \u2013 but either way, he tells it from the point of view of someone in a state just this side of total delirium . . . If only history were taught with books like these. A gem.\u201d (<i>Now<\/i>, 4-star review)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"467\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/?attachment_id=467\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0018.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"303,480\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;HP Scanjet 4800&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Marguerite\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0018.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0018.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-467 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 40px;\" title=\"Marguerite\" src=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0018.jpg\" alt=\"Douglas Glover\" width=\"242\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0018.jpg 303w, https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/scan0018-107x170.jpg 107w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a>\u201cGlover, with his penchant for the vulgar viscera of history, has turned the yarn of the lady of Ile des Demons into a ripsnortingly super book . . . A uniquely Canadian melange of Rabelais and Susannah Moodie . . . It\u2019s Mr. Glover\u2019s puckish but profound imagination, applied to a real event of history, that makes <i>Elle<\/i> so appealing. He is one of the few Canadian writers looking at the country with a northern version of magic realism.\u201d (Peter Black, <i>Saint John Telegraph-Journal; <\/i>syndicated in Guelph, Peterborough, Belleville, <i>Ottawa Sun<\/i>, <i>Sherbrooke Record<\/i>, <i>Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph<\/i>, Thunder Bay, and on-line in the <i>Log Cabin Chronicles<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA magical world filled full of bears (not since Marian Engel have bears been so erotic), dreams, and myths . . . There is hardly a paragraph in <i>Elle<\/i> that doesn\u2019t excite the imagination, barely a page that doesn\u2019t provoke a laugh. <i>Elle<\/i> provides the kind of reading experience that comes so rarely and, when it is gone, you are left bereft, wanting it to never end. (<i>Owen Sound<\/i><i> Sun-Times<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA powerful verbal energy that demonstrates the author\u2019s love of language and manifests itself in may bizarre, hilarious, and imaginatively compelling ways . . . a man possessed by words, scrambling to get them down (or out) in a state of high glee . . . Glover explores serious moral and spiritual issues, focusing on questions of authenticity . . . [Elle\u2019s] odd combination of humility, wit, and insight makes her more fully and sympathetically human than many a central character in standard realist fiction . . . One of the best writers of his generation, author of some of the most brilliantly imaginative short fiction in the history of CanLit . . . a playful, courageous, intelligent book.\u201d (<i>The Fiddlehead<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Temake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"469\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/?attachment_id=469\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Temake.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"309,480\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;dg&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1376488811&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Temake\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Temake.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Temake.jpg\" class=\"alignright wp-image-469\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 40px;\" title=\"Temake\" src=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Temake.jpg\" alt=\"Douglas Glover\" width=\"247\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Temake.jpg 309w, https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Temake-109x170.jpg 109w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a>\u201cDive[s] right through the looking glass to a new territory in which real events are intertwined with stories \u2014 and stories within stories \u2014 all stitched together with threads of history, geography, biography, and myth . . . A Canadian Wonder Woman . . . Glover\u2019s writing is quick and lush, elegant and erudite. He plays with the possibilities of story and the limitations of language.\u201d (<i>Event<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe packaging is gorgeous, the story intriguing, and the execution brilliant. A delicious mix of beauty and irreverence, realism and shamanism, fact and imagination.\u201d (<i>Qwerty<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFantasy, satire, poetry and comedy of manners contribute in turn to a total picture which finally becomes not just a story but a historical reconstruction . . . Glover presents a fresco in which monsters and heroes struggle for a throne without a pedestal, recalling that the ground on which we stand is not made only of virtues. It is also fed by crimes, lust, and animal sacrifice.\u201d (<i>Le Devoir<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA powerful and impressive personal experience.\u201d (<i>Le Soleil<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Order <em>Elle<\/em><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/dougglov-20\/detail\/0864924925\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from the Num\u00e9ro Cinq Bookstore (Amazon)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780864924926\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from IndieBound<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapters.indigo.ca\/books\/elle\/9780864924926-item.html?ikwid=Douglas%2520Glover&amp;ikwsec=Home&amp;gcs_requestid=0CKCl19eq_bgCFRPd5wodrBMAAA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from Chapters\/Indigo<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/49thshelf.com\/Books\/E\/Elle3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">via 49th Shelf<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gooselane.com\/books.php?ean=9780864924926\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from the publisher<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.com\/Elle-Douglas-Glover\/9780864924926\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from Book Depository UK (worldwide shipping)<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.editionsboreal.qc.ca\/catalogue\/livres\/pas-ourse-1195.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the French translation from \u00e9ditions du Bor\u00e9al<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/Fiction\/Elle-Audiobook\/B075JQBQ2W\/ref=a_search_c4_1_3_srTtl?qid=1505378455&amp;sr=1-3\">Now also available as an Audible audiobook narrated by Severn Thompson.<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/Fiction\/Elle-Audiobook\/B075JQBQ2W\/ref=a_search_c4_1_3_srTtl?qid=1505378455&amp;sr=1-3\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7511\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7511\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/?attachment_id=7511\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Audio-book-cover-for-Elle.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"450,450\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;dg&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1505369793&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Audio book cover for Elle\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Audio-book-cover-for-Elle.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Audio-book-cover-for-Elle.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-7511 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Audio-book-cover-for-Elle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Audio-book-cover-for-Elle.jpg 450w, https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Audio-book-cover-for-Elle-170x170.jpg 170w, https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Audio-book-cover-for-Elle-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. Governor-General&#8217;s Award Jury Citation This headlong, intense interior monologue combines humour, horror and brutality with intelligence and linguistic dexterity to forge a revised creation myth for the New World.. Winner, Governor General\u2019s Award for Fiction, 2003 Finalist, IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award Editors\u2019 pick: Amazon.ca Best Books of 2003 Globe and Mail Top 100&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/?page_id=110\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":339,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-110","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3OdoH-1M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7514,"href":"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110\/revisions\/7514"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}