Michael Ondaatje doesn’t work fast. He spent six years on his seminal novel The English Patient—which actually just won the Golden Man Booker Award (meaning it was the Booker Award-winner of the past 50 years). That is in part because he likes to drown himself in the material. Per this interview from BookPage, Ondaatje prefers to get …
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Published on July 15, 2018 06:00