Buy this book on-line Ondaatje , Michael : THE ENGLISH PATIENTAlfred A. Knopf, New York, 1992
1st. American Edition 1993 , Gold color sofe cover Uncorrected Proof copy . Signed by the author with 303 page . Stapled by the publisher to the inside cover is the praise for the works of Michael Ondaatje other books. The winner of the 1993 Booker Prize , basis for the Academy Award winning film by Anthony Minghella . Condition : VERY FINE Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book. Book Condition: Very Fine. Binding: Soft cover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Ondaatje , Michael : THE ENGLISH PATIENT. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. ONDAATJE**, MICHAEL: : THE ENGLISH PATIENTLONDON.BLOOMSBURY,1992. ISBN 074751254X.
UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp.
FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,no price-clip
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creasing to dw/dj's edges - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges clean; contents pristine.Though a 2nd imp; has the true 1st state full-length b/w author portrait photograph to rear inner flap of dw/dj.An acceptable copy to the expensive,true 1st edn.
Set in the closing days of WW2,the novel moves between war-ravaged Italy,and the pre-war African desert of Ladislaus de Almasy's memory, the terribly burned "Englsh Patient" of the title.Scarred beyond recognition,and dying,he is cared for by a young nurse,Hana,in a partially ruined and deserted villa.Into the lives of this strange couple come Kip,a young Indian "sapper" in the British Army,and Caravaggio,a charming Italian-Canadian thief,who has been broken by his experiences of war.The tale of Almasy's doomed affair with a married woman,and its
tragic end,weaves around the lives of Hana, Caravaggio,and Kip,pouring forth from the strange living corpse that the English Patient has become.The horror of war is distant,but central,as Hana and Kip begin a tentative love affair.The characters are warm,human,likeable, yet morally flawed,ambiguous,and damaged.[DR]
Joint-winner Booker Prize,1993.
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