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one strange story
This is one strange story.The English patient is being cared for by anurse in a broken down villa in the hills of Italy in 1944 or 1945.The war has passed by here and is being fought further on..You become familiar with those two and their history, then a family friend of the nurse hears of her andcomes to stay.A bomb disposal expert, a sapper, comes for the beauty of the churches he has seen and wanted to show to his friend.
The story is told as if from a distance.You are not really intimate with the characters.You do get to know all about them, but you just do not feel like you are being told everything.It may be the back and forth from one character to another, from here and now (1945) to the past of one or the other person that makes for the distance you feel.
An odd point is the love of one for the others.They each love each other for different reasons.They are each working through their own hecks created by the war.In the end they have all worked out their shell shock, except the sapper: he has found a new, permanent heck that no one can help him get away from.They end going their own ways, but you get the feeling that they will always carry within themselves a bit of each other. ... Read more

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Based on the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of turn-of-the-twentieth-century New Orleans, Coming Through Slaughter is an extraordinary recreation of a remarkable musical life and a tragic conclusion. Through a collage of memoirs, interviews, imaginary conversations and monologues, Ondaatje builds a picture of a man who would work by day at a barber shop and by night unleash his talent to wild audiences who had never experienced such playing. But Buddy was also playing the field with two women, and inside his head was a ticking time-bomb which he was unable to stop. ... Read more

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Michael Ondaatje, a celebrated author and poet, has adistinct writing technique of interest to students ofliterature as well as writers of fiction. Hemanipulates reader participation with continualchanges of focus, alternating between distance andZen-like moments of clarity. Ghosts and a Buddhistsense of detachment invest his texts with a poeticsense of romance and intrigue. Taking the backdrop ofwar in Sri Lanka from the novel Anil¿s Ghost andselected poems from Handwriting. Joan von Memerty¿scritical analysis of Ondaatje¿s techniquesconcentrates on the aspect that, given the transienceof nature, conflict is irrelevant with the passing oftime. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Pamela Anderson, Saul Bellow, Michael Ondaatje, Michael Ignatieff, Victor Garber, Natalie Glebova, Lois Hole, Coco Rocha, Arnold Belkin, Édouard Carpentier, Melyssa Ford, Catherine Manoukian, Nadia Litz, Alex Atamanenko, Harvey Atkin, Watts, Eli Mandel, Tom Nevakshonoff, Sasha Roiz, Ivan Babikov, Russians in Canada, Inga Skaya, Jim Devellano, Olga Ovtchinnikova, Ksenia Solo. Excerpt:Alex T. Atamanenko MP (born January 24, 1945 in New Westminster , British Columbia ) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the House of Commons in 2006, winning the riding of British Columbia Southern Interior for the New Democratic Party in the 2006 federal election. He is a retired school teacher.Atamanenko was born in New Westminster , and was educated at the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto . Atamanenko has a bachelor's degree in Physical Education degree, a teaching diploma, and a Master of Arts degree in Russian . Atamanenko is a member of the British Columbia Retired Teachers Association. He taught Russian, French and English at a number of schools across Canada and the United States . He also has experience in recreation and physical education with a number of organizations, including the Boys' Clubs of Vancouver, the Canadian Forces Base in Portage La Prairie , Manitoba , and for the Coquitlam and New Westminster recreation departments, where he was part-time leader and co-ordinator, as well as for the government of the Yukon as a co-ordinator for the Canada Games (19761977) and a recreation consultant (19771979). He was also a freelance translator, and is a karate instructor with the Castlegar Karate Club. Other community activities include involvement with the Canadian Youth Hostelling Association in Whitehorse and serving on the Coaching Council of Can... ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Michael Ondaatje, Suresh Joachim, Christopher Ondaatje, Elagu V. Elaguppillai, Kumaravelu Vignarajah, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Indira Samarasekera, David Jeyaraj, Shyam Selvadurai, Veerasingham Dhuruvasangary, Sanjayan Thuraisingam, Anne-Marie Mediwake, Sayan Navaratnam, Rohan Fernando, Ravishankar Puvendran. Excerpt:Anne-Marie Mediwake is a Canadian television news anchor. Formerly co-anchor of Global Toronto 's 6 p.m. News Hour , she was hired in September 2009 by the CBC News Network . Her parents immigrated to Canada from her native Sri Lanka when she was just a child. They settled in southern Alberta and she started her television career in Lethbridge in 1993. Six years later she moved to Toronto where she was a reporter for CTV . While at CTV, she co-hosted the award-winning 21© , a current-affairs program aimed at Canada's younger generation, and reported for Canada AM and CTV National News . She is married to Global News reporter Darryl Konynenbelt and is of Scottish and Sri Lankan heritage. Mediwake gave birth to triplets in 2007. An ongoing series on the pregnancy and the births was carried in the National Post . References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Sir Philip Christopher Ondaatje , OC , CBE , (born February 22, 1933) is a Sri Lankan -Canadian businessman, philanthropist, adventurer, writer and Olympian . He lives in the United Kingdom. Born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka ) to a Burgher family of Dutch origin, Christopher went to Blundell's School in the United Kingdom . After his alcoholic father lost the family fortune, Christopher had to leave school a year from graduation. In 1956, Christopher emigrated to Canada , arriving in Toronto with virtually no money. He quickly began to rebuild the family fortune,... ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: G. E. Moore, P. G. Wodehouse, Raymond Chandler, Ernest Shackleton, Michael Ondaatje, Leslie Howard, C. S. Forester, Simon Brett, Bob Monkhouse, Michael Powell, Dulwich College, List of Old Alleynians, Anand Panyarachun, Nigel Farage, Raymond Keene, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dennis Wheatley, Leonard Costello, Old Alleynian Football Club, Phil Manzanera, George Stainforth, Kieran West, Nigel Harman, Charles Voysey, C. D. Broad, Hugh Bartlett, Peter Twinn, Donald Wiseman, Philip Hollobone, Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, Rupert Penry-Jones, Melford Stevenson, Julian Glover, David Ford, Gordon Jacob, Trevor Bailey, Peter Lilley, Peter Oosterhuis, Siavash Haroun Mahdavi, Colin Cole, V. S. Pritchett, Harold Fraser-Simson, Alan Shirreff, William Searle Holdsworth, Joseph Edward Crawshay Partridge, Clive Bull, Edward George, Baron George, Sir Edward Campbell, 1st Baronet, William Leake, Grahame Donald, W. K. C. Guthrie, Eric Loudoun-Shand, Andrew Sheridan, Peter Bazalgette, Frank Arthur Brock, Billy Griffith, Jon Silkin, Clement Hindley, Horatio Davies, Christopher H. Gilkes, Peter Warren, John Lewis, James Whitehead, William David Doherty, Richard Glazebrook, Colin Tudge, Karol Sikora, Cyril Lowe, John Spellar, Nick Easter, John Silkin, Chris Mole, Stewart Walter Loudoun-Shand, Neville Knox, Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, Henry Cave-Browne-Cave, Terence Mitford, Francis Wyatt, Derek Waring, Gordon Campbell, Jeremy Deller, John Eric Greenwood, Arthur Gilligan, Eric Arthur Cleugh, Hamish Henderson, A. E. W. Mason, John Amis, Michael Perry, William Leslie Comyn, Stephen Gardiner, Michael George Glazebrook, G.a.m. Isherwood, Monty Bowden, Berthold Wells Key, Frank Weston, Samuel Silkin, Baron Silkin of Dulwich, Arthur Wesley Carr, Ken Frost, Frank William Gilligan, William Reed, David Thomson, Karl ... ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on April 8, 2001. The length of the article is 862 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Los fantasmas son los que nos necesitan.(Michael Ondaatje, escritor, entrevista)(TT: Ghosts need us.)(TA: Michael Ondaatje, writer, interview)(Entrevista)
Author: Angel Vivas
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 8, 2001
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Page: 65

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Contains copies of four Michael Ondaatje books: The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Running in the Family, In the Skin of a Lion, and The Cinnamon Peeler. ... Read more

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Chapters: Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Louise Arbour, John Greyson, Andreas Papandreou, Brian Slattery, Howard Adelman, Stephen Gill, Livy A. Visano, David F. Noble, Trichy Sankaran, Lee Lorch, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Kurt Danziger, Gabriel Kolko, Robin Wood, Sergei M. Plekhanov, Jack Granatstein, Reesa Greenberg, Leo Panitch, Purdy Crawford, B. W. Powe, Murray G. Ross, Heather Munroe-Blum, Harry Arthurs, George Gray Bell, John Wendell Holmes, Ellen Bialystok, Peter Hogg, Tom Hockin, Allan Leal, Peter Brinson, Margaret Dale, Jonathan Nitzan, Charles Battershill, Hédi Bouraoui, Alex Neve, Allan Carswell, Michiel Horn, Adam Sol, Eli Mandel, Ronald St. John Macdonald, Christopher Dewdney, Robert Haynes, Joel Bakan, W. Wesley Pue, Norman Penner, Mavor Moore, Barbara Godard, John S. Saul, Orest Subtelny, Neal Wood, Steve Mccaffery, Leslie Green, Les Greenberg, Jan Sapp, Kenneth Lochhead, George Ramsay Cook, Tom Traves, Himani Bannerji, James Laxer, William Jaffé, Paul Axelrod, S. Morris Engel, Fernand Ouellet, Sam Gindin, Grant Strate, Jean-Gabriel Castel, Moshe Milevsky, David N. Stamos, Jean Burnet, Gerald le Dain, Bill Purcell, Don Coles, Marc Egnal, Irving Abella, Jerome Chen, John Saywell, Shannon Bell, Andrea O'reilly, Michael Mandel, Edward Jones-Imhotep, Mike Murley, James Sheptycki, Claude Breeze, Patrick J. Monahan, Rob Bowman, Edelgard Mahant, Tudor Bompa, Ato Sekyi-Otu, Zoë Newman, Janet Jones, Christopher D. Green, Peter Venables, Kim Maltman, Ian Jarvie, Bobby Noble. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 308. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Greyson (born March 1960) is a Canadian filmmaker, whose work frequently deals with gay themes. Greyson is also a video artist, writer and activist; he is currently a professor at York University, where he teaches film and video th...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1483386 ... Read more

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Chapters: Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Milton Acorn, Margaret Avison, George Bowering, Leonard Cohen, Dionne Brand, George Elliott Clarke, Jan Zwicky, Anne Szumigalski, Alden Nowlan, Tim Lilburn, Al Purdy, F. R. Scott, Don Mckay, Gwendolyn Macewen, Ralph Gustafson, Suzanne Jacob, Patrick Lane, Fred Wah, Governor General's Award for English Language Poetry or Drama, Nicole Brossard, Herménégilde Chiasson, Robert Hilles, Erin Mouré, Pierre Nepveu, Anne Compton, D. G. Jones, Phyllis Webb, John Newlove, Governor General's Award for French Language Poetry, Lorna Crozier, Robert Dickson, Governor General's Award for French Language Poetry or Drama, Roy Miki, E. D. Blodgett, John Glassco, John Pass, Stephen Scobie, Pierre Desruisseaux, Paulette Jiles, Don Coles, Roo Borson, Heather Spears, David Donnell, Stephanie Bolster, Jacob Scheier. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 199. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Leonard Norman Cohen, CC, GOQ (heb. , born September 21, 1934) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often deals with the exploration of religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships. Famously reclusive, having once spent several years in a Zen Buddhist monastery, and possessing a persona frequently associated with mystique, he is extremely well-regarded by critics for his literary accomplishments, for the richness of his lyrics, and for producing an output of work of high artistic quality over a five-decade career. Musically, Cohen's earliest songs (many of which appeared on the 1967 album, Songs of Leonard Cohen) were rooted in European folk music. In the 1970s, his material encompassed pop, cabaret and world music. Since the 1980s, his h...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19965375 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from American Review of Canadian Studies, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2006. The length of the article is 1478 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Ragas of Longing: The Poetry of Michael Ondaatje.(Book review)
Author: Donna K. Hollenberg
Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 36Issue: 3Page: 540(3)

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Chapters: Robertson Davies, Margaret Atwood, Mordecai Richler, Michael Ondaatje, Gabrielle Roy, Timothy Findley, Rohinton Mistry, Carol Shields, Nancy Huston, Malcolm Lowry, Jane Urquhart, David Adams Richards, Morley Callaghan, Jack Hodgins, George Bowering, Alice Munro, Paul Quarrington, Hugh Maclennan, Igor Gouzenko, Margaret Laurence, Brian Moore, Josef Škvorecký, Governor General's Award for English Language Fiction, Thomas Head Raddall, Jacques Godbout, Suzanne Jacob, Governor General's Award for French Language Fiction, Marie-Claire Blais, Colin Mcdougall, Douglas Lepan, Matt Cohen, Miriam Toews, Rudy Wiebe, Anne Hébert, Bertram Brooker, Hugh Garner, Jacques Poulin, Antonine Maillet, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Douglas Glover, Jacques Brault, Gérard Bessette, Kate Pullinger, Lise Tremblay, Adele Wiseman, Jacques Ferron, Réjean Ducharme, Claire Martin, Alan Sullivan, David Gilmour, Marian Engel, Leon Rooke, John F. Hayes, Gilles Archambault, Diane Schoemperlen, Jean-Marc Dalpé, Gloria Sawai, Robert Kroetsch, Philip Child, Gwethalyn Graham, Yves Thériault, Nino Ricci, Richard B. Wright, André Giroux, Peter Behrens, Kildare Dobbs, Philippe Panneton, Dave Godfrey, Colin Mcadam, M. T. Kelly, Laura Salverson, Aki Shimazaki, Greg Hollingshead, Pascale Quiviger, Élise Turcotte. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 286. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC, O.Ont, FRSC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian author, poet, critic, essayist, feminist and social campaigner. While she may be best known for her work as a novelist, she is also an award winning poet, having published 15 books of poetry to date. Many of her poems have been inspired by myths and fairy tales, which were interests of hers from an early age. Atwood has also published short stories in Tamarack Review, Alp...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=60280 ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The English Patient, Anil's Ghost, in the Skin of a Lion, Divisadero, Coming Through Slaughter. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Anils Ghost is the critically acclaimed fourth novel by Michael Ondaatje. It was first published in 2000 by McClelland and Stewart. Anils Ghost follows the life of Anil Tissera, a native Sri Lankan who left to study in the United States on a scholarship, during which time she has become a forensic anthropologist. She returns to Sri Lanka in the midst of its merciless civil war as part of a Human Rights Investigation by the United Nations. Anil, along with archaeologist Sarath Diyasena, discovers the skeleton of a recently burned victim in a government area. With the help of the mysterious Sarath, Anil sets out to identify the skeleton, nicknamed Sailor, and bring about justice for the nameless victims of the war. The title of the novel, Anils Ghost, may be a reference to various elements within the narrative. Anils ghost might refer to Anils struggle to unify her past in Sri Lanka and America with her present life. Anils ghost also might refer to Sailor, the skeleton that Anil and Sarath work to identify. Sailor, symbolizes, in a single entity, all of the victims of war. It is the destruction of innocent lives that haunts Anil and drives her to identify the victim as well as the culprit who killed him. Another meaning could be the "ghosts" of Sri Lankan atrocities that affects everyone she comes into contact with during her time there. Every character in the book has deep psychological scars from the violence. Finally, Sarath may also be Anils ghost. At the end of the novel, Saraths self sacrifice lives on as a memory in Anil and the other characters. As such, he lives on as a ghost, his m...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1649382 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on April 13, 1997. The length of the article is 2027 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Cómo y por qué Michael Ondaatje escribió 'El paciente inglés', esa novela sobre los nómadas de la historia.(TT: How and why Michael Ondaatje wrote 'The English Patient,' that novel about history's nomads)
Author: Ariel Dorfman
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 13, 1997
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
Issue: n1067Page: p64(2)

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