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Michael Ondaatje

The English Patient

Trillium Book Award

1987 in literature

	In the Skin of a Lion Essays
		Critical Analysis of "In the Skin of a Lion"
		A critical analysis of the techniques used to convey the author's message in "In the Skin of a Lion" by Michael Ondaatje.
		Analyzes "In the Skin of a Lion" by Michael Ondaatje.
	www.bookrags.com /essay/In_the_Skin_of_a_Lion (125 words)

	Lioncrusher's Domain -- Lion (Panthera leo) facts and pictures
		This was the largest of the lion subspecies, and it lived in the Atlas Mountain forests in Northern Africa, from Morocco to Egypt.
		Lions are seen as vermin in many parts of their range, and are often shot on sight.
		All lions are born with rosettes or spots of some sort, but these are usually lost by the time the animal reaches sexual maturity.
	www.lioncrusher.com /animal.asp?animal=59&page=2 (1477 words)

	USA Chin Woo Lion Dance Team - Party Animals
		Back then, the school had not acquired any "baby" lion costumes, so he had to wait almost five years before he was strong enough to dance with the lion's 8-pound head.
		Although the lion costume is often mistaken for a dragon, lion and dragon dances are distinct Chinese rituals, Mr.
		The dance of the lion, thought to be the guardian of the heavens, is used to bring luck.
	www.chinwoo.com /liondance/party_animals.htm (993 words)

	Skin Diver Online - sea lion reverie
		The seal and sea lion’s main food sources, oily rich lantern fish and squid, were driven deep into layers of cooler waters.
		To eat, the sea lions began to chase Salemas, a silvery grunt endemic to the Galapagos.
		A colony of 80 sea lions played around the bow of the boat and occasionally dove to the bottom where they appeared to laze about on the sand.
	www.skin-diver.com /departments/divetheworld/mexicoandcentralamerica/galapagos/mar01_lions.asp?theID=1472 (426 words)

	Asiatic Lion Information Centre - The Lion of India
		Because of the strained circumstances, the lion population began preying on the human population in the area.
		In 1910 there were reported to be fewer than two dozen lions left in the wild although this low figure may have been publicised to discourage lion hunting - census data from the time indicates the population was probably closer to 100.
		Asiatic lions are slightly smaller than their African cousins, although the largest Asiatic lion on record was an imposing 2.9 m in length.
	www.asiatic-lion.org /intro.html (649 words)

	Lion facts
		Although lions seem to be all one color, closer inspection reveals patches of white inside their legs and on their bellies.
		Although most cats live and hunt alone, lions band together into a group called a "pride." The territory of a pride is passed on from generation to generation and usually covers anywhere from 8 to 275 square miles.
		Lions are different from other wild cats in that they show distinct sexual dimorphism (the males and females have different physical characteristics).
	www.colszoo.org /animalareas/carnivr/lionfact.html (596 words)

	Leo the lion
		Leo is the fifth zodiac constellation and the one most easily recognized: the crouching lion facing westward, with a distinctive head and mane marked by a sickle of stars which look like a backwards question mark.
		In Roman mythology, Leo is identified with the Nemean lion that Hercules was required to skin a huge lion whose pelt was impervious to stone of metal.
		Leo is also said to be the lion in the tragic tale of the lovers Pyramus and Thisbe.
	starryskies.com /The_sky/constallations_html/leo.html (1220 words)

	Nemean Lion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The lion was usually considered the offspring of Typhon and Echidna, but it was also said to have fallen from the moon, offspring of Zeus and Selene.
		The lion had been terrorizing the area around Nemea, and had a skin so thick that it was impenetrable to weapons.
		Heracles spent hours trying unsuccessfully to skin the lion, and gradually growing angrier as it appeared he would be unable to complete his first task.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nemean_Lion (309 words)

	Skin — FactMonster.com
		The man that once did sell the lion's skin While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him.
		skin - skin skin, the flexible tissue (integument) enclosing the body of vertebrate animals.
		skin cancer - skin cancer skin cancer, malignant tumor of the skin.
	www.factmonster.com /dictionary/brewers/skin.html (195 words)

	In the Skin of the Lion, Constant Reader Discussion
		Skins are mentioned throughout the book, but I haven't taken the time to sort through them quite yet.
		Topic: In the Skin of a Lion - Michael Ondaatje (27 of 50), Read 26 times Conf: READING LIST BOOKS From: R Bavetta (rbavetta@prodigy.net) Date: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 11:27 AM The unions were not known for their love of the rich.
		The lion that came out happened to be the lion out of whose paw the man had pulled the thorn.
	www.constantreader.com /discussions/skinofthelion.htm (10389 words)

	Buddhism in Translations - § 52. The Ass in the Lion's Skin. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		And at every place he came to, he would unload the ass, and dressing him up in the skin of a lion, let him loose in some field of rice or barley.
		Now one day the peddler took up his abode at the gate of a village, and while his breakfast was cooking, he dressed up the ass in the lion's skin, and let him loose in a field of barley.
		And also the inhabitants of the village knew it was an ass, and beat him until his bones broke, and took the lion's skin away with them.
	www.sacred-texts.com /bud/bits/bits052.htm (342 words)

	In the Skin of a Lion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the Skin of a Lion is a novel by Canadian/Sri Lankan writer Michael Ondaatje.
		In the Skin of a Lion was one of the selected books in the 2002 edition of Canada Reads, championed by Steven Page.
		In the Skin of a Lion as a Cubist Novel
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/In_the_Skin_of_a_Lion (2010 words)

	BOPA Daily News Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Furthermore, a persistent problem lion in a livestock area may be killed provided that sufficient evidence can be provided to the director of wildlife and national parks that the lion has damaged property in that area or was a threat to human life.
		It says a person who kills or wounds a lion in defence of his or her property should prove that the lion that was killed or wounded or the group of lions to which that lion belonged at the time it was killed or wounded caused damage to his or her livestock or property.
		The person must prevent damage to the lion and livestock carcases; skin the lion and livestock carcases in a manner, which preserves the skin of the lion or livestock for forensic investigations; and preserve the area where the lion or the livestock were killed or wounded for forensic investigations.
	www.gov.bw /cgi-bin/news.cgi?d=20050503&i=Govt_rescinds_restriction_on_killing_of_lions (341 words)

	Skin
		Superficial fascia is under the skin; deep fascia is among the muscles
		Human skin color varies widely, mostly from the presence of different types and amounts of melanin in the epidermis, as seen in these three photos of young girls.
		The back of the ear reveals very large vessels near the surface of the very thin skin (no light patches).
	www.lionden.com /ap1out-skin.htm (1141 words)

	PlanetPapers - Readings of In the Skin of a Lion
		Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion is a text that is given new meaning when viewed from differing perspectives.
		In the Skin of a Lion is self reflexive- it disrupts the reading process to explore its own textual nature.
		The imagery in the title, and throughout the book, indicates that assuming the skin of a lion can be a way of legitimising one’s life in order to compensate for historical omissions.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/4876.php (1133 words)

	Collection Anime: In the Skin of a Lion - $10.40 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Unfortunately, "In the Skin of the Lion" strays far too often into a kind of lazy poetry-prose, a landscape where every notion is ephemeral and fleeting.
		In The Skin of a Lion blends its various storylines together so seamlessly, so effortlessly, that the reader can scarcely help but bе swept along by the easy narrative.
		Apart from the sheer technical brilliance of the book, In The Skin of a Lion also serves as a sympathetic exposition of the immigrant experience in early twentieth century Toronto.
	www.collection-anime.com /tovar30363739373732363639.html (977 words)

	Lion God (Egyptian god, Avengers foe)
		In reality, the Lion God survived (although his totem-stick was destroyed) and relocated to a cavern beneath the mansion, from which he planned to make another assault.
		There is an Egyptian lion goddess named Sekmeht (Daughter of Bast), and the Incans had a jaguar god, and Hercules wore the pelt of the Nemean Lion, but as far as I've seen already, there is no African lion god.
		Generally depicted as a man with a lion's head and bearing a scepter with a seated lion surmounting it, Apedemak had a vast temple complex that devotees made pilgrimages to at Musawwarat es-Sufra amongst the sands of the Butana north of the Nile's sixth cataract.
	www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/liongod.htm (1676 words)

	Nemean Lion
		The first labor for the hero Heracles, was to rid the Nemean plain of the wild, enormous and extremely ferocious beast known as the Nemean Lion.
		Once the huge monster was dead Heracles set about skinning the beast, but the skin was so tough he could neither tear or cut it.
		In art the hero is usually depicted wearing the Nemean lion skin, its jaws forming the peak of the helmet while its great clawed paws are knotted at his chest forming a hooded cloak, and he is usually leaning on his club, or hanging it on his shoulder.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/n/nemean_lion.html (387 words)

	Story Arts \| Aesop's ABC \| Under The Lion's Skin
		A donkey found a lion's skin and put it on.
		The donkey under the lion's skin tried to frighten him.
		The donkey stood tall under the skin and let out a sound that he thought would resemble a roar.
	www.storyarts.org /library/aesops/stories/under.html (88 words)

	Leo: The Legend
		An alternative to the story of how the Nemean Lion was skinned states that Athene, in the guise of an ancient crone, eventually helped Hercules to realize that the best tool to cut the hide would be the beast's very own claws.
		Hercules is often depicted on ancient Greek vase paintings or in sculptures wearing the skin of a lion...its jaws forming the peak of a helmet while the great clawed paws are knotted at the hero's chest, the whole forming a hooded cape.
		However, historians have traditionally disagreed as to whether the skin Hercules is portrayed wearing in such works of art is that of the Nemean Lion or that of different lion entirely...one which Hercules is said to have killed when he was eighteen years old.
	www.novareinna.com /constellation/leolegend.html (755 words)

	Skin Care -- The Lion and Lioness Day Spa & Salon
		Skin is the largest organ of the body.
		The condition of your skin has a profound effect on your overall well being.
		A gentle cleansing and steaming with a deep penetrating mask that tightens and tones the skin.
	www.lionandlioness.com /skincare.html (248 words)

	"Colour Disrobed Itself From the Body": The Racialized Aesthetics of Liberation in Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a ...
		The connections among skin, colour, nationality, language, and ethnicity receive their most overt, and ultimately self-reflexive, articulation in the scene depicting tannery workers stepping out of vats of red, ochre, and green dye, having "leapt into different colours as if into different countries" (130).
		Although many of the work scenes in In the Skin of a Lion respond to Marcuse's call for emancipation of and through sensuousness, the text is honest about the distortion of sensory experience within the institution of alienated labour.
		In the Skin of a Lion works to transform the consciousness of its readers not only by revising history-which, it insists, can no longer be told from the totalizing point of view of the ruling class-but by revolutionizing representations of labour via the aesthetic.
	www.redorbit.com /news/health/800532/colour_disrobed_itself_from_the_body_the_racialized_aesthetics_of/index.html?source=r_health (5649 words)

	Canada Reads
		In The Skin Of A Lion is a love story and an irresistible mystery set in the turbulent, muscular new world of Toronto in the ' 20s and ' 30s.
		Michael Ondaatje entwines adventure, romance and history, real and invented, enmeshing us in the lives of the immigrants who built the city and those who dreamed it into being: the politically powerful, the anarchists, bridge builders and tunnellers, a vanished millionaire and his mistress, a rescued nun and a thief who leads a charmed life.
		In the Skin of a Lion (1987) is a novel which takes place in Toronto in the years following the First World War.
	www.cbc.ca /canadareads/cr_2002/skin.html (258 words)

	Review - In The Skin Of A Lion
		Mixing the real geography of Toronto with the personal mythologies of a series of surreal characters, "In The Skin Of A Lion" is an interwoven series of tales gathered roughly around the main character, Patrick Lewis.
		Not liking this book and being a resident of Toronto (the novel's primary setting) is fairly close to sacrilege, even more so when the Dean of your former faculty is mentioned in the acknowledgements.
		"In The Skin Of A Lion" is certainly a beautiful piece of writing, reading it feels like watching a silent film; scenes are sculpted rather than described.
	www.patbelford.com /culture/books/skinoflion.html (293 words)

	In the Skin of a Lion as a Cubist Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Although Cubist writing is notoriously difficult to define, In the Skin of a Lion does display what Wendy Steiner sees as the two central aspects of the Cubist analogy in her book The Colors of Rhetoric (1982): stylistic parallelism and a comparison of ideologies.
		The indirectness with which In the Skin of a Lion is narrated shows Ondaatje's rejection of what Berger calls the 'straight story sequentially unfolding in time.' Rather than being led through consecutive episodes, we are advised to '[m]eander' if we wish to discern order in the plot (146).
		In the Skin of a Lion does not contain a tension between representational and non-representational elements, in that it does not deviate as far from a mimetic view of reality as does Berger's G., gaps and indeterminacies notwithstanding.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/673/673_simmons.html (6625 words)

	"The Lion" by Evgeny Zamyatin - from SovLit.com
		The lion was a student at Leningrad University, and also served as an extra at the ballet theatre.
		In today's performance, dressed in a lion skin, he was supposed to stand on a cliff and wait until he is cut down by a spear thrown by the heroine of the ballet.
		The Lion Petya Zherebyakin performed in the lion skin as if he were born not in a Ryazan village, but in the Libyan desert.
	www.sovlit.com /rasskazy/lion.html (3185 words)

	In the Skin of a Lion Summary
		In the Skin of a Lion, a novel set mainly in Toronto, Ontario, Canada by Michael Ondaatje, tells a story of immigrants who built Toronto.
		In the following essay, Schumacher delineates the relationship between language and subjectivity in In the Skin of a Lion as well as examining the roles of community and narrative in the development of Patrick Lewis, the novel's pivotal character.
		In the following essay, Simmons analyzes the Cubist aspects of In the Skin of a Lion, exploring the visual features of the novel and examining its intertextual relationship to the Cubist criticism and fiction of John Berger.
	www.bookrags.com /In_the_Skin_of_a_Lion (336 words)

	Canadian Book Clubs Catalogue - In the Skin of a Lion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This is a haunting tale of passion, privilege and biting physical labour, of men and women moved by compassion and driven by the power of dreams -- sometimes even to murder.
		Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion uses its Toronto setting in the way that Martin Amis's London Fields uses London or Mordecai Richler's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz uses Montreal.
		Rewriting as it does the history of a growing, multicultural metropolis, In the Skin of a Lion plays with public history and private passion to examine the very fabric of community.
	astore.amazon.ca /gp/detail.html?tag=canadianboo0b-20&linkCode=sb1&camp=212357&creative=380585&asin=0394281829 (657 words)

	Historical Obliviousness in Michael Ondaatje's "In the Skin of a Lion"
		Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion narrates the forgotten stories of those who contributed to the building of the city Toronto, particularly immigrants and marginal individuals.
		This is suggested by his saying "Lights" (244) meaning that, as Alice one explained to him, it is his turn to get on the stage and wear the skin of a lion, i.e., tell his own story.
		In the Skin of a Lion creates an intimate space where the silenced, marginal and ex-centric author and tell their own stories.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /canada/literature/ondaatje/gms4.html (1033 words)

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