Volume 40, Number 1 & 2 · January 14, 1993
Wraith's Progress
By Hilary Mantel
The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje
Knopf, 307 pp., $21.00
This is Michael Ondaatje, adverting to his own craft in his novel In the Skin of a Lion. His new novel, The English Patient, is a joint winner of this year's Booker Prize; it meanders in a determined way, swerving gently but effectively away from those false certainties that the author so despises. If the reader treads water and thrashes around—well, Ondaatje would not consider himself responsible for that.
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