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  The English Patient

  by Michael Ondaatje

  With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion,... (more)
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  In the Skin of a Lion

  by Michael Ondaatje

  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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  Anil's Ghost

  by Michael Ondaatje

  With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient , Booker Prize—winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing. Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century... (more)
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  Coming Through Slaughter

  by Michael Ondaatje

  Bringing to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era, this book tells the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great trumpet players--some say the originator of jazz--who was, in any case, the genius, the guiding spirit, and the king of that time and place.
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  Divisadero

  by Michael Ondaatje

  From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it... (more)
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  Running in the Family

  by Michael Ondaatje, Alexandr Stich

  "Brightly coloured, sweet and painful, bloody-minded and otherworldly, <this book> achieves the status of legend." -Margaret Atwood "Eloquent, oblique, witty, full of light and feeling....Ondaatje's knowledge of the fragility and luck of life is very clear. So, too, is the grace and originality of his prose." -"The New Yorker" "Ondaatje has produced a remarkable book....Shimmering through the haze of heat... (more)
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  Divisadero

  by Michael Ondaatje

  From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it... (more)
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  Secular Love

  by Michael Ondaatje

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  The Dainty Monsters

  by Michael Ondaatje

• Michael Ondaatje: Word, Image, Imagination (New Canadian Criticism Series)Leslie Mundwiler

  

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  Michael Ondaatje: Word, Image, Imagination (New Canadian Criticism Series)

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  Spider Blues: Essays on Michael Ondaatje

  by Sam Solecki

  This anthology of essays, reviews and interviews dealing with the poetry and fiction of Michael Ondaatje represents the first sustained attempt at a comprehensive critical view of an important North American writer still very much in mid-career. Includes contributions by Linda Hutcheon, George Bowering, Dennis Lee, Stephen Scobie and Sheila Watson and contains a recent interview with Ondaatje and a lengthy... (more)
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  The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

  by Michael Ondaatje

  William Bonney first killed another man when he was just twelve. By the time he was twenty-one he had slain nineteen more. He was known as Billy the Kid, a bloodthirsty outlaw; a boy with buck teeth and a pleasant face who could shoot a stranger in the heart and calmly walk away while birds ravaged the corpse. Drawing on contemporary accounts, photographs, dime novels and his own imagination, Ondaatje takes you... (more)
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  Tin roof

  by Michael Ondaatje

• Rat JellyMichael Ondaatje

  

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  Rat Jelly

  by Michael Ondaatje

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  Elimination Dance

  by Michael Ondaatje

  Instructions: An elimination dance begins with a crowded dance floor. At a signal, the band stops playing and the announcer reads an elimination, say, "Any lover who has gone into a flower shop on Valentine's Day and asked for clitoris when he meant clematis." Any dancer answering this description must sit down, and his partner is also disqualified. The process continues (e.g. "Any person who has burst into tears... (more)
• The Man with Seven Toes.Michael Ondaatje

  

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  The Man with Seven Toes.

  by Michael Ondaatje

• There's a Trick with a Knife That I'm Learning to Do.Michael. ONDAATJE

  

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  There's a Trick with a Knife That I'm Learning to Do.

  by Michael. ONDAATJE

• The Cinnamon PeelerMichael Ondaatje

  

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  The Cinnamon Peeler

  by Michael Ondaatje

• THE COLLECTED WORKS OF BILLY THE KIDMichael Ondaatje

  

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  THE COLLECTED WORKS OF BILLY THE KID

  by Michael Ondaatje

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  Divisadero

  by Michael Ondaatje