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Divisadero

Michael Ondaatje

Hardcover | Pages: 273 pages

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Title	:	Divisadero
Author	:	Michael Ondaatje
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 273 pages
Published	:	May 29th 2007 by Knopf Publishing Group
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Novels. Literary Fiction. Contemporary

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From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil's Ghost comes a remarkable, intimate novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is shattered by an incident of violence that sets fire to the rest of their lives. Divisadero takes us from San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada's casinos and eventually to the landscape of southern France. As the narrative moves back and forth through time and place, we find each of the characters trying to find some foothold in a present shadowed by the past.

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Original Title:	Divisadero
ISBN:	0307266354 (ISBN13: 9780307266354)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	California(United States) France
Literary Awards:	Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2007), Governor General's
Literary Awards:	/ Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général for Fiction (2007)

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Another outstanding offering from one of my favorite authors. The narrative travels back and forth in time, forging links between the past and the present. Ondaatje gives clues in the content as to the critical themes. "All over the world there must be people like us. . .wounded in some way by falling in love--seemingly the most natural of acts." "We live permananetly in the reoccurence of our own stories, whatever story we tell." ". . .what is most untrustowrthy about our natures and self-worth

There is not much I can write about Michael Ondaatje's Divisadero without echoing what all the other reviewers have already written: Ondaatje is a craftsman. His writing reveals decades of self-scrutiny, of each year wanting to say more with fewer words.Divisadero is about love and the loss thereof. Love falls victim to the jealous wrath of a protective father, to drug addiction, to the minor details of our daily lives, and the greater mystery of the entropy of desire:Lucien and his future wife

Such gorgeous writing and beautiful thoughts! Yet... The book reads more like a set of short stories. The first half read fine. The author lays prose so profoundly honed that one could entertain oneself all day quoting passages from it. How could it be that given such promise, by the end I ceased to care about the characters and their stories? The audiobook reader did a good job, but by the end, even she seemed to acquire a dull groove of melancholy .

Well...When you've already written "The English Patient," it's hard to do much better. Unfortunately, it also seems to mean you don't get good editorial advice anymore.This book has the makings of two good, separate books that would be tied together by a slim plot connection. As it is now, the two story lines are poorly integrated & feel forced.I found the Cooper story dull, if only because I'm tired of Texas Hold 'Em poker & Las Vegas & America in general.The Lucien story, on the

For those who have not read an Ondaatje book before, "Divisadero" may not be a good first start. A newer reader may be expecting a plot that rises and crashes as much as the one developed in "The English Patient," which Ondaatje became known best for after the success of the film version. (And even if you haven't watched the movie 10 times over like some of us, you get it: War, lust, affair, secrets, heartbreak, the end.)But for those who have eaten, lived and breathed his words relentlessly

I very much enjoyed this book. But it was a little confusing toward the end. so I think it may need a second read. I came away with beautiful imagery of how people, specifically all the main characters fragment themselves. I think that the format of the book is also a story/metaphor of this fragmentation. I'm not saying that any of his other books has straight forward, linear, single protagonist narration, but this literally felt like the narration was shattering towards the end into more and

I very much enjoyed this book. But it was a little confusing toward the end. so I think it may need a second read. I came away with beautiful imagery of how people, specifically all the main characters fragment themselves. I think that the format of the book is also a story/metaphor of this fragmentation. I'm not saying that any of his other books has straight forward, linear, single protagonist narration, but this literally felt like the narration was shattering towards the end into more and