Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Scribner (1997), 96 pages
Description
The New Order among animals in a forest. After Great Horned Owl captures power, he announces a program to defend the original inhabitants--the First Ones--from an invasion of refugees and exiles, threatening the forest's way of life. When a female rabbit and a female fox decide to live together Owl has them banished. Eventually Owl is overthrown by a wizard. A political fable by the late author of Becoming a Man.
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LibraryThing member mtbearded1
14 of 75 for 2015. Difficult to say if I should count this as it's really just a story published posthumously, but it is, strictly speaking, a book, if a very short one. Monette is one of my favorite authors. I have 8 of his works in my library at present, including all three of his AIDS memoirs.
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Sanctuary was originally intended to be one story in a collection. Like all fables, it is intended as instruction, and is beautifully told. The story of the love between a fox and a rabbit, both female, not only shows us how love changes our own nature--the fox becomes a vegetarian, as an example--but also shows how narrow minded outsiders may have difficulty accepting such a "contrary to nature" relationship. The story also is clear on the difference between true power and the illusion of power--something we all need to keep in mind in these frightful days. Show Less
Subjects
Awards
Lambda Literary Award (Nominee — Children's/Young Adult — 1997)
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
96 p.; 8.35 inches
ISBN
0684832860 / 9780684832869
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