In the Skin of a Lion

In the Skin of a Lion

1987 • 256 pages

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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 who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English Patient. 256 pp.


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An incredibly self-indulgent and tedious novel. No amount of poetic license can paper over Ondaatje's frequent descents into navel-gazing and self-mastubatory prose.

August 5, 2010

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