The Clan of the Cave Bear : a novel / Jean M. Auel.
Material type: TextSeries: Auel, Jean M. Earth's children ; 1Earth's children ; 1.Publisher: New York, New York : Bantam Books, 2011Copyright date: ©1980Edition: Bantam books Trade paperback editionDescription: xii, 532 pages : map ; 18 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780553250428
- 0553250426
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Fiction | Davis (Central) Library Fiction Collection (New) | Fiction Collection (New) | AUEL | Checked out | 17/04/2024 | T00873572 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
Through Jean M. Auel's magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear .
A natural disaster leaves the young girl wandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land until she is found by a woman of the Clan, people very different from her own kind. To them, blond, blue-eyed Ayla looks peculiar and ugly--she is one of the Others, those who have moved into their ancient homel∧ but Iza cannot leave the girl to die and takes her with them. Iza and Creb, the old Mog-ur, grow to love her, and as Ayla learns the ways of the Clan and Iza's way of healing, most come to accept her. But the brutal and proud youth who is destined to become their next leader sees her differences as a threat to his authority. He develops a deep and abiding hatred for the strange girl of the Others who lives in their midst, and is determined to get his revenge.
Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Crown Publishers, a division of Random House, Inc., in 1980.
The Clan of the cave bear is the first of Jean Auel's Earth's children series. Ayla, a tall, blond, blue-eyed girl lost her family in an earthquake. She is nurtured and protected by some members of the Clan, but there are those who would cast her out because of her strange and threatening ways. Ayla's adventures 25,000 years ago include details of the world as it might have been.