Running in the Family (Vintage International)
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Running in the Family (Vintage International)
by Authors:
Michael Ondaatje
Released: December, 1993
ISBN: 0679746692
Paperback
Sales Rank: 22,388
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Customer Review #1:
 For Those Who did not love "Anils Ghost"
No author can make every book work. Its unfair to expect that. This is the first Ondaajate book I read, make that: devoured. I loved the non-linearity, the depth of love for his home country, the characters gathering and separating. I write this review because I believe strongly that Anils Ghost is the companion piece to "Running in the Family" and less well-done, less artful. But this book more than makes up for the flaws in the later book. Perhaps the kleig lights of fame are too hot for a writer to work at his best. I say that because the author of this book is so gifted and has so much to evoke that I expect he will do so again, maybe not in his beloved, insane Sri Lanka, or maybe back there again. So, in closing, If you despaired of loving "Anils Ghost" read this and youre efforts will be fully redeemed.
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Customer Review #2:
What a family!
This book was just so enjoyable and hilarious but yet so beautifully written. From the beginning till the end Ondaatje opens up to the reader (in a journal entry) this magical and beautiful world. Onddatjes adroitness to include the reader right there in the conversations he has with various family member will bring you to tears. His captivating sytle takes the reader back in time with him trhough such tear jerking and amusing experiences.This memoir will give you a deatiled verbalization of each city and place in Ceylon, so that the reader has a clear picture of what it was like to actually be there. His simple structure of setting things up, will make you feel the temperature and jungle like atmosphere by his entailed descriptions.
Ondaatje reminds me of Stein in certain passages because of how he holds nothing back from the reader. Its as though hes sitting down and talking to you while showing photographs and stories of his exuberant and loud family.
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Customer Review #3:
delicious
both the style and the subject of this novel are easy and enjoyable to absorb. mostly a memoir including some letters and poems. it has a great sense of humor and is full of passionate, and most importantly interesting accounts of the definatly NOT run of the mill family history Ondaatje has.
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