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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.

STATEDE FIRST EDITION, UNCLIPPED DJ.

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. .

This is a stated First Edition. The Book is in Fne condition with the slightest of edge wear. Page tops tinted grey. The binding is snug and square. The DJ is in Near Fine condition with bump to to corner. Yhe DJ is not price clipped. A collectible piece. Please see the attached photo of the book and email any questions.