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Elephant winterKim Echlin
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Elephant winter

206 pagesFirst published 19985 editions
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Sophie Walker is back from Africa to nurse her dying mother. Her mother's Ontario farm borders on "Safari"—a tacky tourist spot now deserted for the winter. From her mother's window Sophie sees not cows, or horses, but a group of Indian elephants playing gracefully in the snow. Elephant Winter is a novel about the forms of intimacy, from the turbulent love between a mother and daughter to the fulfilling bond between Sophie and the elephants.

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Editions

5 editions
  • Ebook · English · 2009
    PENGUIN GROUP (CANADA) · 9780143172833
  • Other · English · 2009
    Penguin Canada · 214 pages · 9780143170587
  • Other · English · 2004
    Penguin Publishing Group · 9780147518194
  • Other · English · 1999
    Carroll & Graf · 206 pages · 9780786706105
  • Other · English · 1998
    Penguin · 206 pages · 9780140263503
Asiatic elephantFictionHuman-animal relationshipsLiteratureMothers and daughtersTerminally illYoung womenFiction, general