false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165553810m/5946.jpg 5946 23 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. 1155500 book 1987 In the Skin of a Lion total:1751|5:582|4:636|3:419|2:93|1:21| 1751 6918 2445 174 3 1 false false Thu Aug 21 14:36:50 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 14:37:32 -0700 2008
I had never read an Ondaatje book, and felt that I should, given the fact that I was about to see a...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 19:38:23 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 19:45:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 21:31:03 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 10:02:58 -0700 2009
"The first sentence of every novel should be: "Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.'"

And this seems to be Ondaatje's philosophy about his novels.

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On one hand it's a fast read, but then it's also filled with buried details and dream images that makes me want to start ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Dec 07 19:05:53 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 21:00:20 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false true Tue Feb 24 11:18:07 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 28 12:18:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 15:29:42 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 15:32:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jul 31 15:45:17 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 09 06:46:27 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 01 14:38:54 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 01 14:38:54 -0700 2007
The stoic, unschooled and hard-working protagonists allow a fresh perspect...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun May 06 17:59:39 -0700 2007 Sun May 06 18:32:37 -0700 2007
I liked the setting of this book: the Depression in Toronto. I actually learned a lot about Toronto just reading this and looking things up. One of the best qualities this story had was that it was t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 10 09:00:38 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 09:03:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jun 06 17:09:35 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 17:13:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Oct 30 21:13:50 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 07 21:47:33 -0800 2009 I'd not realized this book was a prequel to The English Patient. One meets the characters Caravaggio and Hana here.
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I've always liked Ondaatje, but haven't read him in a while.It was interesting to see the young Hana and Caravaggio and I immediately had to start re...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 12 20:47:04 -0800 2008 Sun Apr 06 20:04:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5946