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Visualize a 16th-century contemporary society belle transformed Robinson Crusoe, a female Don Quixote with an Inuit Sancho Panza, and you'll provide an inkling of what's in store in Douglas Glover's outrageously Rabelaisian new novel - his first in a decade. Elle is a lusty, subversive riff on the breakthrough of the brand new World, as soon as of first contact. Based on a true account, Elle chronicles the ordeals and escapades of a young French woman marooned on the desolate Isle of Demons during Jacques Cartier's ill-fated third and previous attempt to colonize Canada. Obviously the plot is merely the start. The bare put together is a true account: The Sieur de Roberval have forego his unruly young niece, her lover, and her nurse on the Isle of Demons; her companions and her newborn baby did expire; and she was indeed rescued and considered home to France. Beyond that, Glover's Rabelaisian imagination takes over. What with real bears, nature bears, as well as perhaps hallucinated bears, with mystified and mystifying natives, with the residue of any somewhat lurid spiritual beliefs, and with a world of self-preserving belligerence, the voluble heroine of Elle does indeed more than survive. Elle brilliantly reinvents the origins of this country's background: what Canada designed to the early Western european adventurers, what these Europeans designed to Canada's original inhabitants, and the dreadful failure of both worlds to recognize each other as human. In a carnal whirlwind of myth and account, of death, lust, and love, of beauty and hilarity, Glover brings days gone by violently and unexpectedly in to the present. In Elle, Glover's well-known scatological realism, exuberant assault, and dark, unsettling laughter give background a completely modern chill. Cover design by Kent Fackenthall. Cover photo copyright by Lev Dolgatshjov, istockphoto.com. Reproduced by permission of Goose Street Editions.
