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In the Skin of a Lion

By: Michael Ondaatje
Narrated by: Tom McCamus
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Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth.

Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English Patient.

©1987 Michael Ondaatje (P)2017 Audible, Inc. Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction
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Looked this book up after watching one of my favourite films ‘ The English Patient’ again. Stuck with it but found the story very disjointed and the characters two dimensional.

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What a listen!
Being the third Ondaatje novel in a row, I now feel I have learnt so much more about the world..yet I am one of its elders.
It does not matter when they were written. They speak of such now events ( its quite, quite unnerving-even for a historian) yet they are seemingly unanchored.
Gifts I had somehow missed until now.

Insights, magic, history embroidery in webs..

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