by Michael Ondaatje
"... Ondaatje stressed the importance of place and having a landscape in which to envision his work. 'I can’t begin a book with an idea, or it peters out after about two pages,' he said. 'Location is essential. Once I know when and where it’s happening, it creates a situation for a story. It’s almos...
My rating is all for the language. "In the Skin of a Lion" reads like fingers through your hair, mesmerizing, sweet and addicting. The plot lost me several times, Who was the man... Why in the world did he... ?But, I enjoyed the reading.
Jannifer really, really, really wants me to read this. Okay.
3.5 to 4 stars.***Read For School***
A radiant work that shimmers with every page.
This was a very haunting story, about all kinds of people from different places in the world, their life paths crossing in mysterious ways. The language was sometimes very poetic, other times quite crude. Patrick was introduced first only as 'the boy' and he was the only Canadian in the story, all...
This is a very interesting novel, set primarily in Toronto of the 1920s. Patrick Lewis learns from his father the art of placing dynamite so as to dislodge logjams in rural Ontario. This is his tale, as he traces a mysterious, Hughes-like financier.
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