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An interesting thing to note about Lion is that four of the characters—Patrick, Hana, Caravaggio, and Clara—appear in Ondaatje’s next...

In The Skin of a Lion has not one but two scenes in which Patrick Lewis is sketched. Early in the story, his father Hazen “outlined the...

In a previous post having to do with a different book, I wrote about What Do You Do When I Can’t See You—that phenomena in fiction of the...

Let’s consider some implications of the narrative style of In the Skin of a Lion. Umberto Eco suggests that a text contains three...

Last week, I threatened to write about In the Skin of a Lion’s narrative structure. Going to do it today. The book is often described as...

This week, a new story, Michael Ondaatje’s 1987 book, In the Skin of a Lion. At times, the past becomes bit murky, but I believe I first...