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Vintage International Ser.: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (1993, Trade Paperback)
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THE ENGLISH PATIENT Early reprint, Film tie-in edition. SIGNED to the title page in blue ink by the Governor General's Award and Giller Prize winning poet and author of THE COLLECTED WORKS OF BILLY THE KID.
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With unsettling beauty and intelligence, this Golden Man Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679745203
ISBN-139780679745204
eBay Product ID (ePID)903539
Product Key Features
Book TitleEnglish Patient : Man Booker Prize Winner
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicClassics, War & Military, Literary, Historical
Publication Year1993
GenreFiction
AuthorMichael Ondaatje
Book SeriesVintage International Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight8.2 Oz, 8.4 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN93-010492
TitleLeadingThe
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." Wall Street Journal, "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." -Wall Street Journal, "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." -- Wall Street Journal, "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." -- Wall Street Journal, "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." - Wall Street Journal, "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." - Wall Street Journal
Dewey Edition22
Age LevelTrade
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisBOOKER 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., With unsettling beauty and intelligence, this Golden Man Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. 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., 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.
Lc Classification NumberPs3568.O243
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- Jan 01, 2020
Movie better!
Great movie! Not so great book...… I purchased this book as I thought the book would be better than the movie. Wrong! The movie is perfect in every way. The book spends much time on the mechanics of defusing bombs and almost nothing on the sensuousness of the ill-fated couple. The book would be more enjoyed by men, I believe, as it explains many interesting things about the desert, etc. The author spend hours and hours researching before writing the book, and it shows.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Sep 21, 2021
Great book and I got it for so cheap :)
Great book, great value, $3. It doesn’t get better (Would be 5 stars but my cover is a different version than the advertised pic)
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Jan 11, 2022
loved the book
loved the story, cried at the end, more of these.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Feb 19, 2019
Fine book
Worth the money and in fine shapeVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
