Swati's review
In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
what love affairs! i was put off initially by the preening masculinity of long passages about loggers and bridge-builders and other big-biceped sorts. beautifully written, and a necessary set-up, but a bit much, for me, now, anyway. but in came the nun, clara, and alice. though clara was a little too much the woman that so many smart men (characters and authors and various other real-world types alike) dream up ---- poetically mysterious, eloquently vague, occasionally vulnerable but ultimately distant, quirky, and most of all, a wildcat in the sack. it gets old, but what can i say, i'm not immune to the charms of the archetype.
