In Michael Ondaatje's beloved family memoir, fact and fiction blur to create a dazzlingly original portrait of a lost time and place. Ondaatje left Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) at the age of eleven. Almost twenty-five years later, he returned to sort out the recollected fragments of experience, legend, and family scandal, and to reconstruct the carefree, doomed life his parents and grandparents had led in a place where couples danced the tango in the moonlight, where drink, gambling, and romance were the main occupations of the ...
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In Michael Ondaatje's beloved family memoir, fact and fiction blur to create a dazzlingly original portrait of a lost time and place. Ondaatje left Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) at the age of eleven. Almost twenty-five years later, he returned to sort out the recollected fragments of experience, legend, and family scandal, and to reconstruct the carefree, doomed life his parents and grandparents had led in a place where couples danced the tango in the moonlight, where drink, gambling, and romance were the main occupations of the upper class. Rich with eccentric characters and captivating stories, and set against the exotic landscape of a colonial empire in decline, Running in the Family is Ondaatje's unforgettable journey through memory and imagination to reclaim his past.
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New York. 1982. September 1982. Norton. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0393016374. 207 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Antonina Krass. keywords: Autobiography Sri Lanka Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER-This book is an absorbing autobiographical journey of discovery to a far place in another time. Through memory, through imagination, the author reveals a world of fabulous characters and landscapes as he finds his own beginnings in the strange context of his family history. Michael Ondaatje was born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to a privileged, highly eccentric family of mixed Dutch, Sinhalese, and Tamil ancestry. His parents separated, and he left Ceylon when he was eleven, eventually settling in Canada. Almost twenty-five years later, he returned to sort out the recollected fragments of experience, legend, and family scandal, and to reconstruct the fascinating relationship of his parents set against the exotic background of a colonial empire in decline. Cobras in the garden; grandmother Gratiaen swept away in a flood; the humid silence of the tropical afternoons; his father burying gin bottles in the flower beds; mad, drunken expeditions through the jungle-these are a few of the pieces that the author tries to fit together in order to understand who his parents were and who he is. inventory #8960.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page (signature only). 1st American edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Dust jacket has edgewear and chipping, now in protective mylar sleeve. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 207 p. Audience: General/trade. Book has mild shelfwear to the base of the spine and modest tonign to the edges of the pageblock. Previous owner s name on the also by page. Autobiography by the Booker Prize-, Golden Man Booker-, Governor General's Award-, Giller Prize-, Prix Médicis étranger-, Sri Lanka Ratna-, Golden Plate Award-, and Companion of the Order of Canada-winning author of 'The English Patient' and 'Divisadero'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
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