The White Bone

HarperCollins Canada,

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  Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4W 1A8

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  Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

  Gowdy, Barbara

  The white bone : a novel / Barbara Gowdy.

  ISBN 978-1-55468-524-0

  1. Elephants–Fiction. I. Title.

  PS8563.O883W5 2009 C813’.54 C2009-905758-1

  RRD 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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