In the canon
In the Skin of a Lion
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1987
- Pages
- Pages 250
At night, on the half-built Bloor Street Viaduct, the wind lifts a nun off the edge, and a Macedonian bridgeworker dangling from a rope catches her in one arm, his shoulder nearly torn from its socket by the weight. Michael Ondaatje tells it the way a city tells its secrets, half rumour, half miracle.
Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.
The blurb, the gist, the why of the day and the work itself are in the app. The first button needs it on this device; the second gets it there.