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In the Skin of a Lion Michael Ondaatje

In the Skin of a Lion By Michael Ondaatje

In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje


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From the Booker Prize-winning author comes the sparkling and lyrical predecessor to the bestselling The English Patient.

In the Skin of a Lion Summary

In the Skin of a Lion: Picador Classic by Michael Ondaatje

With an introduction by Anne Enright

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.

It is the 1920s, and Patrick Lewis has arrived in the bustling city of Toronto, leaving behind his Canadian wilderness home. Immersed in the lives of the people who surround him - the immigrants building the city, as well as those who dreamed it into being - Patrick begins to learn, from their stories, the history of the city itself. And he has his own adventures: searching for a missing millionaire, tunnelling beneath Lake Ontario, falling in love.

In the Skin of a Lion is Michael Ondaatje's sparkling predecessor to his Booker Prize-winning The English Patient. Here we encounter Hana the orphaned girl and Caravaggio the thief for the first time, as well as a large cast of other characters, all lovingly and intimately portrayed. Exquisite and musical, In the Skin of a Lion is a novel that challenges the boundary between history and myth. It is a stunning modern classic.

In the Skin of a Lion Reviews

Ondaatje writes in curves, in time-lapses, a sort of verbal cinema whose narrative is unfaltering * Times *
A triumph . . . a powerful and revelatory accomplishment * Times Literary Supplement *
A magical book. Michael Ondaatje defies the normal distinction between poet and novelist. His writing is consistently tuned to a visionary pitch -- Graham Swift
A singular masterpiece -- Kamila Shamsie

About Michael Ondaatje

Booker Prize-winning novelist Michael Ondaatje is the author of many collections of poetry and several books of fiction, including In the Skin of a Lion and The English Patient. He and his wife live in Toronto.

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GOR008786647
9781509823345
1509823344
In the Skin of a Lion: Picador Classic by Michael Ondaatje
Used - Like New
Paperback
Pan Macmillan
2017-06-01
288
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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