19
Aug
Rachel's Recommended Readings
|
August 19th, 2011
In the Skin of a Lion/The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
By Rachel King
There’s a kind of intense, charged, numinous quality to Ondaatje’s prose. I hadn’t experienced the same kind of trance-over-sentences since I read Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian a few years ago. In the Skin of a Lion is about the immigrant experience in Toronto at the beginning of the 20th century, and The English Patient is about the intersection of four people’s lives in Italy at the end of WWII. But with prose this great, you won’t care about the about-ness until your second read through.
Feed
Comments disabled
Comments have been disabled for this article.