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In the skin of a lion : a novel / Michael Ondaatje.
Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.It is the 1920s, and Patrick Lewis has arrived in the bustling city of Toronto, leaving behind his Canadian wilderness home. Immersed in the lives of the people who surround him – the immigrants building the city, as well as those who dreamed it into being – Patrick begins to learn, from their stories, the history of the city itself. And he has his own adventures: searching for a missing millionaire, tunnelling beneath Lake Ontario, falling in love.
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- ISBN: 9780394281827
- ISBN: 9780394281827 :
- ISBN: 0394281829 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0394281829 :
- ISBN: 9780394281834
- ISBN: 0394281837
- Physical Description: 243 p. ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 1st Vintage Canada ed
- Publisher: Toronto : Vintage Canada, 1996, c1987.
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- Poor > Ontario > Toronto > Fiction.
Toronto (Ont.) > Fiction. - Genre:
- Love stories.
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- Festival of the Written Arts 2008
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- 1 of 1 copy available at College of the Rockies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cranbrook Campus | PS 8579 .N35 I6 1996 (Text) | 11111001124447 | CRANBROOK | Volume hold | Available | - |
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In the Skin of a Lion is a love story and an irresistible mystery set in the turbulent, muscular new world of Toronto in the 20s and 30s. Michael Ondaatje entwines adventure, romance and history, real and invented, enmeshing us in the lives of the immigrants who built the city and those who dreamed it into being: the politically powerful, the anarchists, bridge builders and tunnellers, a vanished millionaire and his mistress, a rescued nun and a thief who leads a charmed life. This is a haunting tale of passion, privilege and biting physical labour, of men and women moved by compassion and driven by the power of dreamsâsometimes even to murder.