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    In the Skin of a Lion

    By Michael Ondaatje

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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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateApr 6, 2011
    ISBN9780307776631
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    In the Skin of a Lion
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    Michael Ondaatje

    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.

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