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Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje (2008, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100307279324
ISBN-139780307279323
eBay Product ID (ePID)63168311
Product Key Features
Book TitleDivisadero
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPsychological, Small Town & Rural, Literary, Romance / General
Publication Year2008
GenreFiction
AuthorMichael Ondaatje
Book SeriesVintage International Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight9.7 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Ravishing and intricate . . . Few experiences in contemporary fiction are as sensual and absorbing as making one's way through the pages of an Ondaatje novel. And there is a different, a deeper delight in going through his books a second time to see the secret stitching . . . The question that insistently haunts these elliptical and delicate works is how much their very beauty takes us away from the wars and scenes of great pain they describe, and to what extent, in courting art, they leave real life behind.Divisaderois an epic of intimate moments . . . The book is, among other things, a parable of contemporary America . . . When people call Ondaatje a poetic novelist, they are referring in part, of course, to his rare gift for language and observation. A scene of a boy on a runaway horse during an eclipse is as astonishing and hallucinatory as any such passage I can remember reading. Yet the deeper aspect of his poetic background is that his narratives proceed with the interlaced complexity of a long lyric poem . . . Part of the special delight of reading one of his books comes from the impression we get of a deeply curious traveler opening his worn suitcase and letting all the exotic bric-a-brac he's collected on his journeys tumble out . . . Each of the romances in the book is gorgeous and singular in its effects . . . Ondaatje's ability to fashion scenes that are at once exact and suggestive accounts not only for the sensual tingle of the books, but also for their literary pleasures . . . There is always a clear and unhurried spaciousness to Ondaatje's paragraphs; they proceed with the deliberation and hush of a work of meditation, even while turning their attention to things of the secular world . . .Divisaderoextends the liberating and original territory of that earlier triumph [The English Patient] so unforgettably that it's hard, on finishing, not to turn back to the opening page and start all over." Pico Iyer,New York Review of Books "Exquisitely crafted and imbued with Ondaatje's acutely sensitive intelligence,Divisaderopulls its readers inside the novelist's craft like being inside an intricate pocket watch to learn its movements." Bob Hoover,Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Ondaatje's best books are kaleidoscopic meditations on memory, violence, time and sexuality are held together less by linearity than by rhyming action, thematic echoing and inspired juxtaposition . . . One doesn't come to Ondaatje for resolution. One comes for the language, the discreet imagined moments, the exact metaphors, the turn of a phraseand for the thrill of watching a writer attempting, and for the most part, succeeding, in his desire, through juxtaposition, to make the world more than it is." Ethan Rutherford,Minneapolis Star-Tribune "Divisaderoechoes the writer's earlier fiction in its mastery both of storytelling and of fine writing . . . It is beautifully intricate, yet credible, a subtle play on cause and effect . . . Ondaatje's exquisite use of imagery propels his story of loss and displacement to an impressive level of fictional power . . . A subtle, stirring novel, a fine book and an arresting one." Nancy Schiefer,London Free Press(Ontario) "Divisaderois a river of images and scenes that flows through the characters' lives like fate. So, reader, embark and journey in awe of this river master . . .Divisaderois alive, pulsing and irreducible . . . Wonders and genius [have] shaped this design . . . It is a collage, though never random, which artfully revisions the temporal into a masterpiece that will permanently affect the reader." Mary Jo, "Ravishing and intricate. . . . Unforgettable." --Pico Iyer, The New York Review of Books "My life always stops for a new book by Michael Ondaatje. . . . [ Divisadero is] a mosaic of profound dignity, with an elegiac quietude that only the greatest of writers can achieve. . . . Ondaatje's finest novel to date." --Jhumpa Lahiri"The more you give Divisadero , the more it gives in return . . . . [Ondaatje] is a writer of intense acuity." -- The New York Times "Brilliant. . . . Divisadero plays whimsically with chronology and memory, with fantasy and historical fact." -- San Francisco Chronicle, "Ravishing and intricate . . . Few experiences in contemporary fiction are as sensual and absorbing as making one's way through the pages of an Ondaatje novel. And there is a different, a deeper delight in going through his books a second time to see the secret stitching . . . The question that insistently haunts these elliptical and delicate works is how much their very beauty takes us away from the wars and scenes of great pain they describe, and to what extent, in courting art, they leave real life behind. "Divisadero "is an epic of intimate moments . . . The book is, among other things, a parable of contemporary America . . . When people call Ondaatje a poetic novelist, they are referring in part, of course, to his rare gift for language and observation. A scene of a boy on a runaway horse during an eclipse is as astonishing and hallucinatory as any such passage I can remember reading. Yet the deeper aspect of his poetic background is that his narratives proceed with the interlaced complexity of a long lyric poem . . . Part of the special delight of reading one of his books comes from the impression we get of a deeply curious traveler opening his worn suitcase and letting all the exotic bric-a-brac he's collected on his journeys tumble out . . . Each of the romances in the book is gorgeous and singular in its effects . . . Ondaatje's ability to fashion scenes that are at once exact and suggestive accounts not only for the sensual tingle of the books, but also for their literary pleasures . . . There is always a clear and unhurried spaciousness to Ondaatje's paragraphs; they proceed with the deliberation and hush of a work of meditation, even while turning their attention to thingsof the secular world . . . "Divisadero" extends the liberating and original territory of that earlier triumph ["The English Patient"] so unforgettably that it's hard, on finishing, not to turn back to the opening page and start all over." -Pico Iyer, "New York Review of Books" "Exquisitely crafted and imbued with Ondaatje's acutely sensitive intelligence, "Divisadero" pulls its readers inside the novelist's craft like being inside an intricate pocket watch to learn its movements." -Bob Hoover, "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" "Ondaatje's best books are kaleidoscopic meditations on memory, violence, time and sexuality are held together less by linearity than by rhyming action, thematic echoing and inspired juxtaposition . . . One doesn't come to Ondaatje for resolution. One comes for the language, the discreet imagined moments, the exact metaphors, the turn of a phrase-and for the thrill of watching a writer attempting, and for the most part, succeeding, in his desire, through juxtaposition, to make the world more than it is." -Ethan Rutherford, "Minneapolis Star-Tribune" ""Divisadero "echoes the writer's earlier fiction in its mastery both of storytelling and of fine writing . . . It is beautifully intricate, yet credible, a subtle play on cause and effect . . . Ondaatje's exquisite use of imagery propels his story of loss and displacement to an impressive level of fictional power . . . A subtle, stirring novel, a fine book and an arresting one." -Nancy Schiefer, "London Free Press" (Ontario) ""Divisadero "is a river of images and scenes that flows through the characters' lives like fate. So, reader, embark and journey in awe of this river master . . . "Divisadero"is alive, pulsing and irreducible . . . Wonders and genius [have] shaped this design . . . It is a collage, though never random, which artfully revisions the temporal into a masterpiece that will permanently affect the reader." -Mary Jo Anderson, "Chronicle Herald "(Halifax) """Comparisons of Ondaatje to Faulkner and Garcia Marquez are apt. His sense of time, like theirs, is one of curling, recurring flow . . . "Divisadero "finds Ondaatje in familiar form, which is to say eloquent, finely tuned form . . . [It] wends a crooked path, which is part of its great m, "Ravishing and intricate. . . . Unforgettable." -Pico Iyer,The New York Review of Books "My life always stops for a new book by Michael Ondaatje. . . . [Divisaderois] a mosaic of profound dignity, with an elegiac quietude that only the greatest of writers can achieve. . . . Ondaatje's finest novel to date." -Jhumpa Lahiri "The more you giveDivisadero, the more it gives in return . . . . [Ondaatje] is a writer of intense acuity." -The New York Times "Brilliant. . . .Divisaderoplays whimsically with chronology and memory, with fantasy and historical fact." -San Francisco Chronicle, "Ravishing and intricate. . . . Unforgettable." -Pico Iyer, The New York Review of Books "My life always stops for a new book by Michael Ondaatje. . . . [ Divisadero is] a mosaic of profound dignity, with an elegiac quietude that only the greatest of writers can achieve. . . . Ondaatje's finest novel to date." -Jhumpa Lahiri"The more you give Divisadero , the more it gives in return . . . . [Ondaatje] is a writer of intense acuity." - The New York Times "Brilliant. . . . Divisadero plays whimsically with chronology and memory, with fantasy and historical fact." - San Francisco Chronicle, "Ravishing and intricate. . . . Unforgettable." --Pico Iyer, "The New York Review of Books" "My life always stops for a new book by Michael Ondaatje. . . . ["Divisadero" is] a mosaic of profound dignity, with an elegiac quietude that only the greatest of writers can achieve. . . . Ondaatje's finest novel to date." --Jhumpa Lahiri "The more you give "Divisadero," the more it gives in return . . . . [Ondaatje] is a writer of intense acuity." --"The New York Times" "Brilliant. . . . "Divisadero" plays whimsically with chronology and memory, with fantasy and historical fact." --"San Francisco Chronicle"
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisFrom the celebrated author of "The English Patient" and "Anil's Ghost" comes a remarkable, intimate novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is shattered by an incident of violence that sets fire to the rest of their lives. "Divisadero" takes us from San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada's casinos and eventually to the landscape of southern France. As the narrative moves back and forth through time and place, we find each of the characters trying to find some foothold in a present shadowed by the past., From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil's Ghost comes a remarkable, intimate novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is shattered by an incident of violence that sets fire to the rest of their lives. Divisadero takes us from San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada's casinos and eventually to the landscape of southern France. As the narrative moves back and forth through time and place, we find each of the characters trying to find some foothold in a present shadowed by the past.
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