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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.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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.

Size: 5x1x8; First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good dust jacket. Free of any markings and no writings inside. Clear Text. Minor shelf-wear. For any additional information or pictures, please inquire.

Alfred A Knopf, 1996. Hardcover. VG/VG. Signed by the suthor, DJ: some rubbing & edgewear; few creases & some yellowing; in protective cover. Book: some rubbing & edgewear; some yellowing; gift inscription inside; overall clean & tight. 307 pages