Search results 160 Found

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Slight spine lean, else a beauty. Brief owner's name. First state dust jacket.

Trade PB. 8vo. Published by Alfred A Knopf, New York. 1992. 307 pgs. Uncorrected Proof. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to reimagine who he is, now that his hands are hopelessly maimed. The Indian sapper Kip searches for hidden bombs in a landscape where nothing is safe but himself. And at the center of his labyrinth lies the English patient, nameless and hideously burned, a man who is both a riddle and a provocation to his companions—and whose memories of suffering, rescue, and betrayal illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning.; 5.76 X 1.17 X 8.67 inches; 307 pages.

Brilliant novel by Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje set in an Italian villa. Michael Ondaatje's three previous novels have each been met with the highest praise: for their startling narrative inventiveness, the richness of their imagery and emotion, and the spellbinding quality of their language. When In the Skin of a Lion was published in 1987, Carolyn Kizer, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called Ondaatje "a beautiful writer. brilliantly gifted". And Tom Clark wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle that "Ondaatje handles fiction with the deceptive touch of a magician". Now, with The English Patient, he gives us his most stunningly original and lyric novel yet. During the final moments of World War II, in a deserted Italian villa, four people come together: a young nurse, her will broken, all her energy focussed on her last, dying patient, a man in whom she has seen something "she wanted to learn, to grow into and hide in". the patient: an unknown Englishman, survivor of a plane crash, his mind awash with a life's worth of secrets and passions. a thief whose "skills" have made him one of the war's heroes, and one of its casualties. an Indian soldier in the British army, an expert at bomb disposal whose three years at war have taught him that "the only thing safe is himself". Slowly, they begin to reveal themselves to each other, the stories of their pasts and of the present unfolding in scene after haunting scene, taking us into the Sahara, the English countryside, down the streets of London during the Blitz, into the makeshift army hospitals of Italy, and through the battered gardens and rooms of the villa. And with these stories, Ondaatje weaves a complex tapestry of image and emotion, recollection and observation: the paths and details offour diverse lives caught and changed and now inextricably connected by the brutal, improbable circumstances of war.

NY: ALFRED A . KNOPF. STATEDE FIRST EDITION, UNCLIPPED DJ. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1992.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1992 Knopf Stated First Edition of this instant classic turned into film! A NF/NF copy with unclipped DJ.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. Later printing. Fine condition. SIGNED by Michael Ondaatje on title page next to his name. Laid in is a card from a Contemporary Author Series at Friends' Hall announcing his appearance there in December 1977. Front endpage has an inked ownership message, "Harriet W. Koch, from Al, Christmas 1996." From the Koch estate. Harriet Koch was the daughter of George Wallace Woodworth, an American choral conductor, organist, and music educator at Harvard. 8vo. 307 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, inc., 1992. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo. 307 pp, stated First Edition, Binding tight and square, pages clean, unmarked, and fresh, beige cloth-back & lighter beige papered boards crisp and unworn, unclipped, illustrated DJ in protector. 6" x 8.7" boards. .