Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje is the author of five previous novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. The English Patient won the Booker Prize; Anil’s Ghost won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize, and the Prix Médicis. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje now lives in Toronto.
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Tay John
Trade Paperback | 216 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9392-0 (0-7710-9392-6)
August 5, 2008 | $19.95
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...
Trade Paperback | 216 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9392-0 (0-7710-9392-6)
August 5, 2008 | $19.95
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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...
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Divisadero
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97915-2 (0-676-97915-7)
April 22, 2008 | $21.00
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 with...
Written by Michael Ondaatje
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97915-2 (0-676-97915-7)
April 22, 2008 | $21.00
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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 with...
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unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
Vintage Ondaatje
eBook | 192 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary; Literary Collections
978-0-307-43003-8 (0-307-43003-0)
December 18, 2007 | $9.99
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...
Written by Michael Ondaatje
eBook | 192 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary; Literary Collections
978-0-307-43003-8 (0-307-43003-0)
December 18, 2007 | $9.99
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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...
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Divisadero
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7393-4350-0 (0-7393-4350-5)
May 29, 2007 | $22.00
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...
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7393-4350-0 (0-7393-4350-5)
May 29, 2007 | $22.00
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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...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
The English Patient
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction
978-1-4159-3957-4 (1-4159-3957-8)
May 29, 2007 | $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...
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction
978-1-4159-3957-4 (1-4159-3957-8)
May 29, 2007 | $29.95
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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...
The English Patient
Abridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7393-4395-1 (0-7393-4395-5)
November 7, 2006 | $14.00
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...
Abridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7393-4395-1 (0-7393-4395-5)
November 7, 2006 | $14.00
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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...
Vintage Ondaatje
Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary; Literary Collections
978-1-4000-7744-1 (1-4000-7744-3)
October 12, 2004 | $13.95
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...
Written by Michael Ondaatje
Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary; Literary Collections
978-1-4000-7744-1 (1-4000-7744-3)
October 12, 2004 | $13.95
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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...
Also available as an
eBook.
The Conversations
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage Canada | Performing Arts - Film - Direction & Production; Performing Arts - Film - History & Criticism; Performing Arts - Film
978-0-676-97682-3 (0-676-97682-4)
August 31, 2004 | $29.95
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...
Written by Michael Ondaatje
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage Canada | Performing Arts - Film - Direction & Production; Performing Arts - Film - History & Criticism; Performing Arts - Film
978-0-676-97682-3 (0-676-97682-4)
August 31, 2004 | $29.95
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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...
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eBook.
Lost Classics
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage Canada | Literary Criticism & Collections; Fiction - Classics
978-0-676-97300-6 (0-676-97300-0)
October 15, 2002 | $21.95
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...
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage Canada | Literary Criticism & Collections; Fiction - Classics
978-0-676-97300-6 (0-676-97300-0)
October 15, 2002 | $21.95
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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...
Anil's Ghost
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97361-7 (0-676-97361-2)
April 17, 2001 | $21.00
Following the phenomenal success of Michael Ondaatje’s Booker Prize-winning third novel, The English Patient, expectations were almost insurmountable. The internationally acclaimed #1 bestseller had made Ondaatje the first Canadian novelist ever to win the Booker. Four years later, in 1996, a motion picture based on the book brought the story to...
Written by Michael Ondaatje
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97361-7 (0-676-97361-2)
April 17, 2001 | $21.00
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Following the phenomenal success of Michael Ondaatje’s Booker Prize-winning third novel, The English Patient, expectations were almost insurmountable. The internationally acclaimed #1 bestseller had made Ondaatje the first Canadian novelist ever to win the Booker. Four years later, in 1996, a motion picture based on the book brought the story to...
Running in the Family
Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Emblem Editions | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-7710-6896-6 (0-7710-6896-4)
April 10, 2001 | $21.00
In Michael Ondaatje’s beloved family memoir, fact and fiction blur to create a dazzlingly original portrait of a lost time and place. Ondaatje left Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) at the age of eleven. Almost twenty-five years later, he returned to sort out the recollected fragments of experience, legend, and family scandal...
Written by Michael Ondaatje
Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Emblem Editions | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-7710-6896-6 (0-7710-6896-4)
April 10, 2001 | $21.00
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In Michael Ondaatje’s beloved family memoir, fact and fiction blur to create a dazzlingly original portrait of a lost time and place. Ondaatje left Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) at the age of eleven. Almost twenty-five years later, he returned to sort out the recollected fragments of experience, legend, and family scandal...
Handwriting
Unabridged Cassette | pages | Knopf Canada | Poetry
978-0-676-97357-0 (0-676-97357-4)
October 17, 2000 | $32.00
In his most recent collection, Handwriting, Michael Ondaatje gives us poems of delicacy and power--poems about love, landscape, and the sweep of history, set in his first home, Sri Lanka. He weaves stories of war and love, of kings and robbers, and two millennia of culture, into a rich tapestry of...
Written by Michael Ondaatje
Unabridged Cassette | pages | Knopf Canada | Poetry
978-0-676-97357-0 (0-676-97357-4)
October 17, 2000 | $32.00
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In his most recent collection, Handwriting, Michael Ondaatje gives us poems of delicacy and power--poems about love, landscape, and the sweep of history, set in his first home, Sri Lanka. He weaves stories of war and love, of kings and robbers, and two millennia of culture, into a rich tapestry of...
Also available as an
unabridged audio cassette and a
trade paperback.
Anil's Ghost
Unabridged Cassette | pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97324-2 (0-676-97324-8)
April 28, 2000 | $35.00
In his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient -- winner of the Booker Prize and the Governor General's Award -- Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth we have come to know as the hallmarks of...
Unabridged Cassette | pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97324-2 (0-676-97324-8)
April 28, 2000 | $35.00
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In his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient -- winner of the Booker Prize and the Governor General's Award -- Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth we have come to know as the hallmarks of...
Anil's Ghost
Unabridged Compact Disc | pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97323-5 (0-676-97323-X)
April 28, 2000 | $49.95
In his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient – winner of the Booker Prize and the Governor General’s Award – Michael Ondaatje gives us Anil’s Ghost, a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth we have come to know as the...
Written by Michael Ondaatje
Unabridged Compact Disc | pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97323-5 (0-676-97323-X)
April 28, 2000 | $49.95
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In his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient – winner of the Booker Prize and the Governor General’s Award – Michael Ondaatje gives us Anil’s Ghost, a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth we have come to know as the...
Handwriting
Unabridged Cassette | pages | Knopf Canada | Poetry
978-0-676-97278-8 (0-676-97278-0)
April 25, 2000 | $19.95
For all admirers of Michael Ondaatje, Handwriting is available in Audio. Now we can not only read Ondaatje's poetry but we can hear him reciting it in his own voice.
Written by Michael Ondaatje
Unabridged Cassette | pages | Knopf Canada | Poetry
978-0-676-97278-8 (0-676-97278-0)
April 25, 2000 | $19.95
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For all admirers of Michael Ondaatje, Handwriting is available in Audio. Now we can not only read Ondaatje's poetry but we can hear him reciting it in his own voice.
Also available as an
unabridged audio cassette and a
trade paperback.
















