![]() ![]() (Briffa, who the devil was Briffa? I read the book three times and am still mystified.) It's like life itself. Other characters are scantily identified, if at all. Crucial events go unexplained characters who seem important at the time disappear without a trace. ![]() Manages to pick up most of the loose threads in his complex tapestry by the time the book winds down. ![]() Ponder well an epigraph by John Berger, the British Marxist art critic and novelist, at the opening of this tale: ''Never again will a single story be told as though it were the only one.'' Mr. So that the reader isn't put off by the frequent and sometimes lengthy divagations into the lives of seemingly unconnected characters, he or she should Lewis, who as a lad learns from his logger father how to clear logjams with dynamite, and who grows up to use high explosives to express his hatred of the wretched conditions of working men and women in the Toronto of theĪn orderly and linear account of Patrick's youth this is not. Central to his story is the life and character of Patrick However, that would be an error in the case of ''In the Skin of a Lion,'' whose author, Michael Ondaatje, is a brilliantly gifted poet and memoirist. Ike most normal readers when handed a novel by a poet, or a work described as written in ''poetic prose,'' ![]()
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