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The Story

	List Price: $19.95 Our Price: $7.98 Your Save: $ 11.97 ( 60% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Publisher: House of Anansi Press Written By: Michael Ondaatje
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 Format: Bargain Price Label: House of Anansi Press Manufacturer: House of Anansi Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 48 Publication Date: 2006-03-10 Publisher: House of Anansi Press Studio: House of Anansi Press
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Editorial Review: Michael Ondaatje's poems have been celebrated by readers and writers alike for containing some of the most memorable and moving verse written in the past half-century. The Story combines Ondaatje's sensual writing with watercolor illustrations by celebrated painter David Bolduc, making a unique item. Left-hand pages contain Bolduc's art while right-hand pages contain Ondaatje's poem — both typeset and in the author's own handwriting. This elegant housing is a fitting accompaniment to Ondaatje's elegaic poem, which follows his larger themes — love, memory, family, exile — even as it unfolds into "our dismantled childhoods," and offers readers the opportunity to extend its narrative into their own lives.
Reader Reviews for The Story: Customer Rating: Summary: NICE BOOK Comment: I knew the poem "The Story" from another collection of poetry. But it is still nice to have the book "The Story"! Customer Rating: Summary: "and then the past is erased"........ Comment: .....We are told on the first page of "THE STORY". Children are given forty days of dreams of previous lives and then "the past is erased". This is a beautifully written and illustrated little book that teases out questions and follows with elegiac whispers of the memories, the histories that were present before the maps were buried. The poem takes us to a place we have already been trained to enter and conquer, only any projection past that point is unknown..... thus at the end we are left to reflect and wonder.....and hope for our future. Michael Ondaatje magically takes the reader into his hands and transports him gently through his poem in a dreamlike haze. This lovely little book would make a wonderful gift and knowing that all royalties go directly to a fundraising project for World Literacy of Canada is an added bonus!

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