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Michael Ondaatje is the author of four previous novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. The English Patient won the Booker Prize and was an Academy Award-winning film; Anil’s Ghost won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize, and the Prix Médicis. Born in Sri Lanka, Ondaatje now lives in Toronto.
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Running in the Family
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: November 30, 1993
Price: $14.95
In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India, " Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An inspired travel narrative and family memoir... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: November 30, 1993
Price: $14.95
In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India, " Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An inspired travel narrative and family memoir... Read more >
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The English Patient
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 30, 1993
Price: $15.95
With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's 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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 30, 1993
Price: $15.95
With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's 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... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
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Divisadero
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2008
Price: $13.95
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2008
Price: $13.95
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... Read more >
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Anil's Ghost
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2001
Price: $15.00
With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize—winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing.
Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2001
Price: $15.00
With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize—winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing.
Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka... Read more >
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In the Skin of a Lion
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: January 14, 1997
Price: $14.95
Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: January 14, 1997
Price: $14.95
Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters... Read more >
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The Conversations
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2004
Price: $19.95
The Conversations is a treasure, essential for any lover or student of film, and a rare, intimate glimpse into the worlds of two accomplished artists who share a great passion for film and storytelling, and whose knowledge and love of the crafts of writing and film shine through.
It was on the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2004
Price: $19.95
The Conversations is a treasure, essential for any lover or student of film, and a rare, intimate glimpse into the worlds of two accomplished artists who share a great passion for film and storytelling, and whose knowledge and love of the crafts of writing and film shine through.
It was on the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Coming Through Slaughter
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: March 19, 1996
Price: $14.00
Bringing to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era, this book tells the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great trumpet players--some say the originator of jazz--who was, in any case, the genius, the guiding spirit, and the king of... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: March 19, 1996
Price: $14.00
Bringing to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era, this book tells the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great trumpet players--some say the originator of jazz--who was, in any case, the genius, the guiding spirit, and the king of... Read more >
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The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: March 19, 1996
Price: $14.00
Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje's visionary novel traces the legendary outlaw's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a virtuoso... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: March 19, 1996
Price: $14.00
Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje's visionary novel traces the legendary outlaw's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a virtuoso... Read more >
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The Cinnamon Peeler
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: January 28, 1997
Price: $14.00
Michael Ondaatje’s new selected poems, The Cinnamon Peeler, brings together poems written between 1963 and 1990, including work from his most recent collection, Secular Love. These poems bear witness to the extraordinary gifts that have won high praise for this truly original poet and novelist. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: January 28, 1997
Price: $14.00
Michael Ondaatje’s new selected poems, The Cinnamon Peeler, brings together poems written between 1963 and 1990, including work from his most recent collection, Secular Love. These poems bear witness to the extraordinary gifts that have won high praise for this truly original poet and novelist. Read more >
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The English Patient
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: September 29, 1992
Price: $29.95
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: September 29, 1992
Price: $29.95
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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The English Patient
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $22.95
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient... Read more >
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $22.95
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Lost Classics
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2001
Price: $13.00
An Anchor Books Original
Seventy-four distinguished writers tell personal tales of books loved and lost–great books overlooked, under-read, out of print, stolen, scorned, extinct, or otherwise out of commission.
Compiled by the editors of Brick: A Literary Magazine, Lost Classics is a reader’s delight: an intriguing and entertaining collection of eulogies for lost... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2001
Price: $13.00
An Anchor Books Original
Seventy-four distinguished writers tell personal tales of books loved and lost–great books overlooked, under-read, out of print, stolen, scorned, extinct, or otherwise out of commission.
Compiled by the editors of Brick: A Literary Magazine, Lost Classics is a reader’s delight: an intriguing and entertaining collection of eulogies for lost... Read more >
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Handwriting
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2000
Price: $11.00
"Tumultuous, vibrant, tragic and over too soon." --Newsday
Handwriting is Michael Ondaatje's first new book of poetry since The Cinnamon Peeler. The exquisite poems collected here draw on history, mythology, landscape, and personal memories to weave a rich tapestry of images that reveal the longing for--and expose the anguish over--lost loves, homes... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2000
Price: $11.00
"Tumultuous, vibrant, tragic and over too soon." --Newsday
Handwriting is Michael Ondaatje's first new book of poetry since The Cinnamon Peeler. The exquisite poems collected here draw on history, mythology, landscape, and personal memories to weave a rich tapestry of images that reveal the longing for--and expose the anguish over--lost loves, homes... Read more >
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Vintage Ondaatje
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $9.95
In his novels, poetry, and memoirs, Booker Prize winner Michael Ondaatje moves from the blasted landscape of Billy the Kid in 1880s New Mexico to the New Orleans jazz world of the legendary Buddy Bolden at the turn of the century, from his native Sri Lanka to the African desert of... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $9.95
In his novels, poetry, and memoirs, Booker Prize winner Michael Ondaatje moves from the blasted landscape of Billy the Kid in 1880s New Mexico to the New Orleans jazz world of the legendary Buddy Bolden at the turn of the century, from his native Sri Lanka to the African desert of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Divisadero
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $39.95
From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time.
In the 1970s in Northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $39.95
From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time.
In the 1970s in Northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm... Read more >
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Divisadero
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $25.00
From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time.
In the 1970s in Northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $25.00
From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time.
In the 1970s in Northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Tay John
Format: Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1989
Price: $12.95
The awesome terrain of the Rocky Mountains is the setting for this extraordinary novel about a heroic man who boldly defies destiny. Tay John, a messianic halfbreed, is fated to lead his people to their Promised Land. In a rebellious act of will, he turns to the mountains to seek his... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1989
Price: $12.95
The awesome terrain of the Rocky Mountains is the setting for this extraordinary novel about a heroic man who boldly defies destiny. Tay John, a messianic halfbreed, is fated to lead his people to their Promised Land. In a rebellious act of will, he turns to the mountains to seek his... Read more >
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Divisadero
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $13.95
From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time.
In the 1970s in Northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $13.95
From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time.
In the 1970s in Northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Vintage Ondaatje
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $9.95
In his novels, poetry, and memoirs, Booker Prize winner Michael Ondaatje moves from the blasted landscape of Billy the Kid in 1880s New Mexico to the New Orleans jazz world of the legendary Buddy Bolden at the turn of the century, from his native Sri Lanka to the African desert of... Read more >
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $9.95
In his novels, poetry, and memoirs, Booker Prize winner Michael Ondaatje moves from the blasted landscape of Billy the Kid in 1880s New Mexico to the New Orleans jazz world of the legendary Buddy Bolden at the turn of the century, from his native Sri Lanka to the African desert of... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Anil's Ghost
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 10, 2001
Price: $15.00
With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize—winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing.
Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 10, 2001
Price: $15.00
With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize—winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing.
Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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Anil's Ghost
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 5, 2000
Price: $14.95
With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize—winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing.
Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 5, 2000
Price: $14.95
With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize—winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing.
Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka... Read more >
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Divisadero
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $17.50
From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time.
In the 1970s in Northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $17.50
From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time.
In the 1970s in Northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm... Read more >
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The English Patient
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 7, 2006
Price: $11.48
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient... Read more >
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 7, 2006
Price: $11.48
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Anil's Ghost
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 4, 2000
Price: $17.50
With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing.
The time is our own time. The place is Sri... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 4, 2000
Price: $17.50
With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing.
The time is our own time. The place is Sri... Read more >
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