false<![CDATA[Running in the Family]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165553808m/5941.jpg594123In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India, " Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An inspired travel narrative and family memoir by an exceptional writer.7964281982Running in the Familytotal:1029|5:311|4:403|3:260|2:46|1:9|10294048139111541falsefalseSun May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005Mon Mar 31 18:52:35 -0700 2008Mon Mar 31 18:56:27 -0700 2008 "Memory and Texture in Running in the Family"
N.B.: This hasn't been proofread
Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family chronicles the history of a family in an unfamiliar land. To most readers of English, the names and places in Runnin...more...]]>
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You've got to stop writing such powerful, sexy books. You make me want to abandon everything and move to Ceylon. I have a terrible problem with mosquitoes. And, frankly, I become rather crazy in the heat. But, ohhhh, how you seduce. Grandmothers dying in floods, the drinking,...more...]]>
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1. "During certain hours, at certain years in our lives, we see ourselves as remnants from the earlier generations that were destroyed."
2. "No story is ever told just once."
3. "There is so much to know and we can only guess. Guess around him...more...]]>
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30falsefalseTue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008Wed Aug 06 13:59:05 -0700 2008Fri Aug 15 15:05:08 -0700 2008 This is a collection of short stories, a small offering of poems, a few remembrances, some vignettes, a spattering of well juxtaposed historical facts and some black and white photographs. It is the memoir as scrap book, half evolving into a filial overt...more...]]>
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40falsefalseThu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009Thu Aug 20 09:33:28 -0700 2009Thu Aug 20 12:44:19 -0700 2009 Set up as a collection of narratives, photographs and p...more...]]>
50truefalseThu Jul 12 09:01:38 -0700 2007Thu Jul 12 09:05:06 -0700 2007 "you must get this book right," my brother tells me. "you can only write it once." but the book again is incomplete. in the end, all your children move among the...more...]]>
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