{"title":"Michael Ondaatje","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"a-year-of-last-things-poems-michael-ondaatje-hardcover","title":"A Year of Last Things: Poems -- Michael Ondaatje, Hardcover","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom one of the most influential writers of his generation, a gorgeously surprising poetry collection about memory, history, and the act of looking back\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing several of his internationally acclaimed novels, \u003ci\u003eA Year of Last Things\u003c\/i\u003e is Michael Ondaatje's long-awaited return to poetry\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e In pieces that are sometimes witty, sometimes moving, and always wise, we journey back through time by way of alchemical leaps, unearthing writings by revered masters, moments of shared tenderness, and the abandoned landscapes we hold on to to rediscover the influence of every border crossed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving from a Sri Lankan boarding school to Moli鑽e's chair during his last stage performance, to Bulgarian churches and their icons, to the California coast and his beloved Canadian rivers, Michael Ondaatje casts a brilliant eye that merges memory with the present, in the way memory as the distant shores of art and lost friends continue to influence everything that surrounds him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom his poem \"His chair, a narrow bed, a motel room, the fox\" \u003cbr\u003e At the Hacienda Motel in Los Angeles Sam Cooke was shot dead.\u003cbr\u003e 'See that shadow on the wall . . .' All those motels and hotels\u003cbr\u003e in literature and song, where X wrote this, \u003cbr\u003e where Y got drunk, where Z overdosed.\u003cbr\u003e The one Hank Williams was driven past, dead already in his car.\u003cbr\u003e The Slavianski Bazaar Hotel in \"The Lady with a Dog,\"\u003cbr\u003e where Dmitri imagines their dark but hopeful future.\u003cbr\u003e The Hel de ville de Courtrai, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewhere Verlaine shot Rimbaud.\u003cbr\u003e The Casa Verdi in Milan, where retired opera singers were welcomed\u003cbr\u003e along with various heteronyms of Fernando Pessoa in their afterlife.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Ondaatje\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/19\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.90w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593801567\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2024 pg. 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMICHAEL ONDAATJE is the author of seven novels, including \u003ci\u003eComing Through Slaughter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Cat's Table\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWarlight\u003c\/i\u003e; a memoir, \u003ci\u003eRunning in the Family\u003c\/i\u003e; a nonfiction book on film-editing, \u003ci\u003eThe Conversations; \u003c\/i\u003eand several books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eThe Cinnamon Peeler\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHandwriting\u003c\/i\u003e. Among other accolades, \u003ci\u003eThe English Patient\u003c\/i\u003e received the Booker Prize in 1992 and was made into a film by Anthony Minghella; \u003ci\u003eAnil's Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the Irish Times International Fiction Prize and the Prix M馘icis. 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Ondaatje's prose is at times startlingly lyrical, and as he chases Bolden through documents and scenes, the novel partakes of the very best sort of modern detective novel--one where the enigma is never resolved, but allowed to manifest in its fullness. 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