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Running in the Family (Picador Books) | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Ondaatje
Publisher: Picador
Category: Book
List Price: £8.99
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 6881
Media: Hardcover
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 207
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0330281720
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780330281720
ASIN: 0330281720
Publication Date: May 11, 1984
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Condition: Brand new book dispatched from stock in the UK
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A beautiful book exhuming a bygone era... March 27, 2001
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
This is wonderful to read. Ondaatje manages to recreate Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) in a wonderfully absorbing, highly readable style. The characters (his family!) are extremely eccentric and entertaining, though there is sadness as well as humour. He is a top-notch story teller and this kind of travelogue/biography is a joy to read.
 Oh please! June 7, 2000
7 out of 32 found this review helpful
I'm afraid I found this book rambling, boring and thoroughly self-indulgent. An avid reader, this is the only book I have ever read that I actually wanted to throw away without finishing, an act which I have never before contemplated.I think that says it all?
 Exquisite prose interlaced with vividly beautiful poetry. July 26, 1999
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
A fascinating insight into a time and place I knew nothing about. Ondaatje writes like a dream; not only is his style luminous and sensual but the stories themselves are a sheer delight. Like my fellow Londoner, I loved the story of Lala on the bus - but even more I loved the photograph of the author's parents. Certainly one of my favourite books. Highly recommended (although admittedly not to everyone's taste - if you prefer Jeffrey Archer to Jane Austen you may be disappointed).
fiction, family history, fairy tale or autobiography January 30, 1999
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
Ondaatje's prose is luminous and his poetry makes Sri Lanka a tangible presence. This is a family history of sorts with a fluctuating narrative standpoint - at times autobiographical, at times a vivid recreation of his parents' experiences and those of other family members. The story of his improbably named grandmother and the groper on the bus had me laughing out loud. This is a fascinating jewel of a book which reads like fiction - not the sort of fiction you buy in an airport book shop, though; rather the sort of fiction likely to be praised on late night book reviews. It is a delight.
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