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List Price: $13.00Amazon.com's Price: $10.40 You Save: $2.60 (20%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780679772668
ISBN: 0679772669
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: January 14, 1997
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: January 14, 1997
Sales Rank: 58186
Studio: Vintage
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English Patient. 256 pp.
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A beautiful book. A 200 page poem that will keep you up at night, hungry for more. Mr. Ondaatje is one of the greatest poets currently working and his ability to craft poetry weaved around narrative is nothing short of stunning. The rebellious nature of the predecessor to "The English Patient" sets it in stark contrast to the defeatist, post-war drama of its more critically acclaimed sibling. The characters are deep, the drama rich, and the events molded from history; if not necessarily fact. If ... Read More
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I cannot say that I fell in love with this book upon first reading--in fact, had I not been stuck waiting for several hours with nothing else to do, I probably would never have made it through. It is constructed very tediously, the structure being as intricate (and perhaps, as initially inaccessible) as the stylistic language itself.
That being said, there are reasons why this has taken and retained the role as one of my favorite books. The characters have been dismissed by many others ... Read More
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I was completely floored by Ondaatje's 'Coming through the slaughter'. It is a superb novel of interconnected stories. 'In the skin of a lion' uses the same form and surpasses Slaughter in evoking atmosphere and imagery, but failed me as a whole. It is not a tour de force like Slaughter.
But: I compare Ondaatje with Ondaatje. I certainly think he is one of the best novelists of our time. And In the Skin of a Lion is a book worth reading.
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Stay with this book for the first 150 pages of mostly gritty stories about building the infra-structure of Toronto in the 1920's. Then, the poetic, magic realism, dreamy writing begins and it is beautiful and kind of crazy but fun to read. Enjoyable, thought provoking and interesting, that is all I can say.
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It was quite a while since I had read something by Ondaatje. I read "The English Patient" twice, a few years ago. The first time I was enthralled. But my second reading disappointed me. With "In the Skin of a Lion" I retraced this emotional trajectory in the space of reading a single book.
I know Ondaatje doesn't want us to look for a polished, coherent story in his books. In "Skin" he warns the reader in a variety of ways for the inevitable disorder and multiplicity of his narrative universe. ... Read More
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