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Michael Ondaatje "The English Patient" Signed Limited Edition, Leather Bound Collector's Edition w/COA [Sealed]
Michael Ondaatje "The English Patient" Signed Limited Edition, Leather Bound Collector's Edition w/COA [Sealed]
Michael Ondaatje "The English Patient" Signed Limited Edition, Leather Bound Collector's Edition w/COA [Sealed]
Michael Ondaatje "The English Patient" Signed Limited Edition, Leather Bound Collector's Edition w/COA [Sealed]
Michael Ondaatje "The English Patient" Signed Limited Edition, Leather Bound Collector's Edition w/COA [Sealed]
Michael Ondaatje "The English Patient" Signed Limited Edition, Leather Bound Collector's Edition w/COA [Sealed]
Michael Ondaatje "The English Patient" Signed Limited Edition, Leather Bound Collector's Edition w/COA [Sealed] Michael Ondaatje "The English Patient" Signed Limited Edition, Leather Bound Collector's Edition w/COA [Sealed] Michael Ondaatje "The English Patient" Signed Limited Edition, Leather Bound Collector's Edition w/COA [Sealed] Michael Ondaatje "The English Patient" Signed Limited Edition, Leather Bound Collector's Edition w/COA [Sealed] Michael Ondaatje "The English Patient" Signed Limited Edition, Leather Bound Collector's Edition w/COA [Sealed]

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Personally signed by Michael Ondaatje on the special title page.

Norwalk, CT. U.S.A.: Easton Press 1999. Michael Ondaatje "The English Patient" . Signed Limited Edition. Full genuine leather. Signed by Author. A wonderful bright clean copy in As New condition, never taken out of its original shrink-wrap. Sealed. 

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BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Warlight traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. “A rare spellbinding web of dreams.” —Time

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.

 

Features

Contains all the classic Easton Press qualities:

* Premium Leather
* Silk Moire Endleaves
* Distinctive Cover Design
* Hubbed Spine, Accented in Real 22KT Gold
* Satin Ribbon Page Marker
* Gilded Page Edges
* Long-lasting, High Quality Acid-neutral Paper
* Smyth-sewn Pages for Strength and Durability
* Beautiful Illustrations
 
 
 

About the author

Philip Michael Ondaatje CC FRSL is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor, and filmmaker.

Ondaatje's literary career began with his poetry in 1967, publishing The Dainty Monsters, and then in 1970 the critically acclaimed The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. His novel The English Patient (1992), adapted into a film in 1996[2] won the 2018 Golden Man Booker Prize.

Ondaatje has been "fostering new Canadian writing" with two decades commitment to Coach House Press (ca. 1970–1990), and his editorial credits include the journal Brick, and the Long Poem Anthology (1979), among others.

 

Work

Ondaatje has published 13 books of poetry, and won the Governor General's Award for The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (1970) and There's a Trick With a Knife I'm Learning to Do: Poems 1973–1978 (1979). Anil's Ghost (2000) was the winner of the 2000 Giller Prize, the Prix Médicis, the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, the 2001 Irish Times International Fiction Prize and Canada's Governor General's Award. The English Patient (1992) won the Booker Prize, the Canada Australia Prize, and the Governor General's Award. It was adapted as a motion picture, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and multiple other awards.[7] In the Skin of a Lion (1987), a novel about early immigrants in Toronto, was the winner of the 1988 City of Toronto Book Award, finalist for the 1987 Ritz Paris Hemingway Award for best novel of the year in English, and winner of the first Canada Reads competition in 2002.

Coming Through Slaughter (1976), is a novel set in New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1900, loosely based on the lives of jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden and photographer E. J. Bellocq. It was the winner of the 1976 Books in Canada First Novel Award. Running in the Family (1982) is a childhood memoir.

Ondaatje's novel Divisadero won the 2007 Governor General's Award. In 2011 Ondaatje worked with Daniel Brooks to create a play based on this novel

In 2018, his novel Warlight was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

 

 

From Publishers Weekly

Canadian author Ondaatje offers a poetic novel set in a desolate Italian villa in the final days of WWII--a one-week PW bestseller--and an evocative account of a visit with his family in Sri Lanka.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
 
 

Reviews


"A rare and spellbinding web of dreams." —Time

"Sensuous, mysterious, rhapsodic, it transports the reader to another world .... Ondaatje's most probing examination yet of the nature of identity." —San Francisco Chronicle

"Mr. Ondaatje [is] one of North America's finest novelists.... The spell of his haunted villa remains with us, inviting us to reread passages for the pure pleasure of being there." —The Wall Street Journal
From the Publisher
"A rare and spellbinding web of dreams."
--Time magazine
"A magically told novel...ravishing...many-layered."
--Los Angeles Times

"Profound, beautiful and heart-quickening."
--Toni Morrison

"Lyrical.... An exquisite ballet that takes place in the dark." --Boston Sunday Globe

"A tale of many pleasures--an intensely theatrical tour de force but grounded in Michael Ondaatje's strong feeling for distant times and places."
--The New York Times Book Review

"A poetry of smoke and mirrors."
--Washington Post Book World

"It is an adventure, mystery, romance, and philosophical novel in one.... Michael Ondaatje is a novelist with the heart of a poet."
--Chicago Tribune

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Publisher:
Easton Press
Edition:
Signed limited Edition
Binding:
Full Genuine Leather
Author:
Michael Ondaatje
Title:
The English Patient