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Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0679416781 . True first edition, first printing. States first edition on cp with no later printings indicated. Book Is Free of former owner writing or bookplates. Near fine in near fine Non price clipped ($21.00) first state jacket: Dust Jacket (price of $21, date 10/92 on lower rear flap, and review comments by just Morrison, DeLillo and Ford). Tight clean book with minor push to bottom edges and minor push on several bottom margins in front of book, not a major issue. THIS BOOK IS IN OUR POSSESSION. WE SHIP MOST BOOKS SIX DAYS A WEEK AND WILL CONFIRM WITH TRACKING NUMBER FOR DOMESTIC ORDERS OR CUSTOMS NUMBER FOR NON DOMESTIC; 8vo .

Knopf, 1992. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Near fine jacket..

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. .

New York: Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0679416781 . Bumped corners. ; First edition stated. Grey top edge. ; 1.2 x 8.4 x 5.7 Inches; 307 pages .

True first edition, first printing. States first edition on cp with no later printings indicated. Book Is Free of former owner writing or bookplates. Near fine in near fine Non price clipped ($21.00) first state jacket: Dust Jacket (price of $21, date 10/92 on lower rear flap, and review comments by just Morrison, DeLillo and Ford). Tight clean book with minor push to bottom edges and minor push on several bottom margins in front of book, not a major issue. THIS BOOK IS IN OUR POSSESSION. WE SHIP MOST BOOKS SIX DAYS A WEEK AND WILL CONFIRM WITH TRACKING NUMBER FOR DOMESTIC ORDERS OR CUSTOMS NUMBER FOR NON DOMESTIC; 8vo.

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.