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  BOOKS BY MICHAEL ONDAATJE

  PROSE

  Coming Through Slaughter (1976)

  Running in the Family (memoir) (1982)

  In the Skin of a Lion (1987)

  The English Patient (1992)

  POETRY

  The Dainty Monsters (1967)

  The Man with 7 Toes (1969)

  The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (1970)

  Rat Jelly (1973)

  Elimination Dance (1976)

  There’s a Trick with a Knife I’m Learning to Do (1979)

  Tin Roof (1982)

  Secular Love (1984)

  The Cinnamon Peeler (1992)

  Handwriting (1998)

  ANTHOLOGIES

  The Long Poem Anthology (1967)

  From Ink Lake: Canadian Stories (1991)

  The Brick Reader (with Linda Spalding) (1991)

  ALSO BY MICHAEL ONDAATJE

  COMING THROUGH SLAUGHTER

  This novel brings to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era; it is the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great trumpet players, some say the originator of jazz, who was a genius, a guiding spirit, and the king of that time and place.

  Fiction/Literature/0-679-76785-1

  THE ENGLISH PATIENT

  During the final moments of World War II, four damaged people come together in a deserted Italian villa. As their stories unfold, a complex tapestry of image and emotion is woven, leaving them inextricably connected by the brutal circumstances of the war.

  Winner of the Booker Prize

  Fiction/Literature/0-679-74520-3

  RUNNING IN THE FAMILY

  In the late 1970s, Michael Ondaatje returned to his native country of Sri Lanka. Recording his journey through the druglike heat and intoxicating fragrances of the island, Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family.

  Memoir/Literature/0-679-74669-2

  IN THE SKIN OF A LION

  This is the story of Patrick Lewis, a backwoods Canadian immigrant who arrives in 1920s Toronto and earns a 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 The English Patient.

  Fiction/Literature/0-679-77266-9

  ALSO AVAILABLE:

  The Cinnamon Peeler, 0-679-77913-2

  Collected Works of Billy the Kid, 0-679-76786-X

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