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In the Skin of a Lion
β Scribed by Ondaatje, Michael
- Book ID
- 107239949
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 198 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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**In the Skin of a Lion** is a love story and an irresistible mystery set in the turbulent, muscular new world of Toronto in the 20s and 30s. Michael Ondaatje entwines adventure, romance and history, real and invented, enmeshing us in the lives of the immigrants who built the city and those who drea