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Loading... Vintage Ondaatjeby Michael Ondaatje
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In his novels, poetry, and memoirs, Booker Prize winner Michael Ondaatje moves from the blasted landscape of Billy the Kid in 1880s New Mexico to the New Orleans jazz world of the legendary Buddy Bolden at the turn of the century, from his native Sri Lanka to the African desert of World War II. Compassionate, lyrical, spellbinding, the work he has created unfolds with mystery and eloquencenbsp;and enlarges our literature. Included in Vintage Ondaatje are portions of the novels Anil’s Ghost, In the Skin of the Lion, Coming Through Slaughter, and The English Patient; the memoir Running in the Family; sections from The Collected Works of Billy the Kid; and a selection of the poetry. Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers, presented in attractive, affordable paperback editions. No library descriptions found. |
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I am a die-hard Ondaatje fan, and really, the only question remaining for me is whether I prefer his prose or his poetry. This book is a good chance to compare the two, but the question, alas, remains unresolved. I will say this, however: While there are other authors out there whose prose comes close to the quality of Ondaatje's, I have yet to discover a writer whose poetry falls so easily off my tongue (for poetry is best read savouring each word in your mouth), like water skimming across rocks in a shallow, fast-flowing stream, whose words are so natural yet so carefully-chosen to be always and exactly just right.
Includes selections from The Collected Works of Billy the Kid and Coming Through Slaughter; 'Travels in Ceylon', 'Passions of Lalla', and 'Photograph' from Running in the Family; the poems 'Light', 'Claude Glass', 'The Cinnamon Peeler', 'Elimination Dance', and 'To a Sad Daughter' from The Cinnamon Peeler; 'The Bridge' from In The Skin of a Lion; 'Katharine' and 'In Situ' from The English Patient; the poems 'The Great Tree', 'The Story', 'Step', and 'Last Ink' from Handwriting; and 'Linus Corea' and 'Anil' from Anil's Ghost.