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Divisadero

Divisadero

by Michael Ondaatje (Author)

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    Paperback 2008

    $3.62
Synopsis

It is the 1970s in Northern California. A farmer and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work the land with the help of Coop, the enigmatic young man who lives with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until they are riven by an incident of violence - of both hand and heart. Written in the sensuous prose for which Michael Ondaatje's fiction is celebrated, Divisadero is the work of a master story-teller.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 304
 Edition: Export and UK open market ed
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 22 Apr 2008
ISBN 10: 0747594953
ISBN 13: 9780747594956
Book Overview: Michael Ondaatje is on the judge's list of contenders for the Man Booker International Prize 2007

Media Reviews
'Hauntingly beautiful ... What an unusual, and unusually rich, experience it is to read Divisadero ... those who spend time within its pages will discover even more proof - not that they needed it - of Michael Ondaatje's peerlessness as a storyteller and poet' Washington Post Book World 'Magnificent ... From its first to last telling sentence, this aesthetic tale, poetic with human detail, is a rare and precious pleasure' USA Today 'Ondaatje is a master at constructing breathtaking passages dropped in as casually as stars in a night sky' Boston Globe 'My life always stops for a new book by Michael Ondaatje. I began Divisadero as soon as it came into my possession and over the course of a few evenings was captivated by Ondaatje's finest novel to date' Jhumpa Lahiri
Author Bio
Michael Ondaatje is the author of four previous novels, a memoir, a non-fiction book on film and several books of poetry. His novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize; another of his novels, Anil's Ghost, won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize and the Prix Medicis. Born in Sri Lanka, he now lives in Toronto.