In the Skin of a Lion (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Michael Ondaatje
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Plot: Family
- Time of Work: c. 1908 to 1938
- Setting: Ontario, Canada
- Principal Characters: Patrick Lewis, Rowland Harris, Ambrose Small, Clara Dickens, Alice Gull, Hana Gull, David Caravaggio, Nicholas Temelcoff
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Memory
- Locales: Ontario, Canada
The Novel
According to a brief prefatory note, In the Skin of a Lion is told by a man driving at night from Toronto to a town in rural Ontario. He is weary and worried, and his narrative swerves from one scene to another very much as his car swerves through the moonlit night. Yet he has a good listener, a girl of sixteen.
Patrick Lewis grows up on a farm in eastern Ontario. His father, Hazen Lewis, teaches him how to work with dynamite, blasting mines and breaking up logjams. After his father dies in a mining accident, Patrick goes to Toronto to find work. He...
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