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THE ENGLISH PATIENT. **

THE ENGLISH PATIENT. **

THE ENGLISH PATIENT. **
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THE ENGLISH PATIENT. **

by ONDAATJE **, MICHAEL:

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ISBN 10
074751254X
ISBN 13
9780747512547
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UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to dw/dj's edges - no nicks,tears or splis 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,likable,yet morally flawed,ambiguous,and damaged.[DR]
Joint-winner Booker Prize,1993.
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The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Sri Lankan-Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje. The story deals with the gradually revealed histories of a critically burned English man, his Canadian nurse, an Italian thief, and an Indian sapper in the British Army as they live out the end of World War II in an Italian villa. The novel won the Canadian Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize for fiction.

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Title
THE ENGLISH PATIENT. **
Author
ONDAATJE **, MICHAEL:
Book Condition
Used - FINE.
Jacket Condition
FINE.
Quantity Available
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Edition
UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
074751254X
ISBN 13
9780747512547
Publisher
LONDON.BLOOMSBURY,1992.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
September 1, 1992
Keywords
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