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Handwriting

Handwriting

by Michael Ondaatje (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 2000

    $3.25

  • Used

    Hardcover 1998

    $8.70
Synopsis

Exquisitely crafted, these are poems about love, history and landscape that transport us with breathtaking imagery to the poet's first home, Sri Lanka.

'The way his novels are truly poetic, Ondaatje's thrilling poems often read like exquisite, unwritten Ondaatje novels' Independent on Sunday

'Handwriting explores Sri Lankan history, geography, ceremonies and myths. It is crowded with scintillating images, such as a tightrope-walker caught in a power cut, beautiful colours and textures' New Statesman & Society

'A set of intimate, gentle poems, transcribing the history, landscape and traditions of Ceylon' The Times

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 88
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Picador
Published: 21 Apr 2000
ISBN 10: 0330393839
ISBN 13: 9780330393836

Media Reviews
Michael Ondaatje defies the normal distinction between poet and novelist. His writing is consistently tuned to a visionary pitch.
--Graham Swift
His thrilling poems read like exquisite, unwritten Ondaatje novels.
-- The Independent
A breathtaking collection.-- If you're going to buy one book this year, buy this one. Ten years from now you'll still be reading it with pleasure.
--Sam Solecki, Books in Canada
Author Bio
Booker Prize-winning novelist Michael Ondaatje is the author of many collections of poetry and several books of fiction, including In the Skin of a Lion and The English Patient. He and his wife live in Toronto.