Michael Ondaatje, Author . Knopf $35 (368p) ISBN 978-0-375-41386-5
Ask most moviegoers, "Who is Walter Murch?" and they're likely to stare uncomprehendingly. Ondaatje (The English Patient) seeks to eradicate that ignorance by providing an expert analysis of Murch's consummate film editing skills,...
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Michael Ondaatje, Author . Knopf $25 (273p) ISBN 978-0-307-26635-4
Ondaatje's oddly structured but emotionally riveting fifth novel opens in the Northern California of the 1970s. Anna, who is 16 and whose mother died in childbirth, has formed a serene makeshift family with her same-age adopted sister, Claire,...
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Michael Ondaatje, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $29.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-679-41678-4
A poet's sensitive, deep-seeing eye, a fluid, sensuous prose and imaginative juxtapositions of characters and events distinguish Canadian author Ondaatje's impressive novels ( Coming Through Slaughter ; In the Skin of a Lion ; etc.). Here again he...
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Michael Ondaatje, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-375-41053-6
While he is generally considered a Canadian writer, Booker Prize-winner Ondaatje was born in Sri Lanka, and he has chosen to set his powerful and resonant new novel in that country during its gruesome civil war in the mid-1980s. Written in his usual
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Michael Ondaatje, Author Vintage Books USA $15.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-679-74520-4
Canadian author Ondaatje offers a poetic novel set in a desolate Italian villa in the final days of WWII--a one-week PW bestseller--and an evocative account of a visit with his family in Sri Lanka. (Dec.)
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Michael Ondaatje, Author Knopf Publishing Group $23 (96p) ISBN 978-0-375-40559-4
Ondaatje's first book of poetry or prose since his bestselling novel The English Patient (1992) offers Western readers knowingly attractive, nostalgic views of his native Sri Lanka. The poet playfully takes to the role of translator (""Aliganaya-`the
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Michael Ondaatje, Author Alfred A. Knopf $16.95 (243p) ISBN 978-0-394-56363-3
A spellbinding writer, Ondaatje exhibits a poet's sensibility and care for the precise, illuminating word. The author of Coming Through Slaughter and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid again paints an impressionistic picture mixing real events and
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Michael Ondaatje, Author Penguin Books $10.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-011309-9
A young man from the Canadian back country moves to Toronto and becomes involved with two actresses, experiencing love, despair and, eventually, compulsion to commit a violent act. ``A spellbinding writer, Ondaatje exhibits a poet's sensibility and...
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Michael Ondaatje, read by the author. Random House Audio, unabridged, six CDs, 7 hrs., $35 ISBN 978-0-307-94371-2
It only adds to the autobiographical nature of Ondaatje’s novel—concerning a young boy who journeys by ship from Sri Lanka to England in the 1950s—that the author narrates this audio edition of his latest work. The mellifluous tones of Ondaatje’s...
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Michael Ondaatje, Author, Michael Ondaatje, Editor Penguin Books $15.95 (736p) ISBN 978-0-14-011832-2
Stories dating from the 1930s to the present comprise this ethnically diverse and rewarding collection featuring Wallace Stegner, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Alistair MacLeod, Joy Kogawa and Mordecai Richler. ``One absorbs, in addition to the...
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Michael Ondaatje, Author, Hope Davis, Read by , read by Hope Davis. Random House Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-4349-4
Davis (American Splendor
) reads Ondaatje's puzzle of a novel delicately, as if hesitant to jostle a single piece out of place. Often playing emotionally frazzled characters on screen, Davis is far more understated here in offering up Ondaatje&#
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Michael Ondaatje. Knopf, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-525-52119-8
The term warlight was used to describe the dimmed lights that guided emergency traffic during London's wartime blackouts. The word aptly describes the atmosphere of this haunting, brilliant novel from Ondaatje (The Cat's Table), set in Britain in...
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Michael Ondaatje. Knopf, $28 (128p) ISBN 978-0-593-80156-7
The dazzling latest by Ondaatje (The Story) brings his formidable literary gifts and imagination to bear on questions of memory and artistic process. Tenderly plumbing friends, ex-lovers, works of art, and “echoing rivers where we lost and found...
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