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A review by novelesque_life
In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
4.0
3.5 STARS
"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." (From Amazon)
An excellent haunting novel but it is not for everyone...it is sort of a prequel to English Patient. Ondaatje is very lyrical in his writing and his descriptions at times are more of a character in the novel.
"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." (From Amazon)
An excellent haunting novel but it is not for everyone...it is sort of a prequel to English Patient. Ondaatje is very lyrical in his writing and his descriptions at times are more of a character in the novel.