From the Publisher
2 cassettes / 3 hours
Read by Michael Ondaatje
"Michael Ondaatje is here at his agile and evocative best . . .
Brightly colored, sweet and painful, bloody-midned and
otherworldly, [Running in the Family] achieves the status of
legend".
-Margaret Atwood
In the late 1970s, Michael Ondaatje returned to his native island
of Sri Lanka. Recording his journey through he druglike heat and
intoxicating fragrances of the "pendant off the ear of India",
Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his
Dutch-Ceylonese family. It is a story of broken engagements and
drunken suicide attempts, of parties where exquisitely dressed
couples tango in the jungle, a tale whose actors pursue lives of
Baudelairean excess with impeccable decorum.
Lyrical and witty, tragic and deliriously romantic, Running in the
family is an inspired marriage of travel narrative and family
memoir by one of our most eloquent and poetic writers.
From the Jacket
2 cassettes / 3 hours
Read by Michael Ondaatje
"Michael Ondaatje is here at his agile and evocative best . . .
Brightly colored, sweet and painful, bloody-midned and
otherworldly, [Running in the Family] achieves the status of
legend."
-Margaret Atwood
In the late 1970s, Michael Ondaatje returned to his native island
of Sri Lanka. Recording his journey through he druglike heat and
intoxicating fragrances of the "pendant off the ear of India,"
Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his
Dutch-Ceylonese family. It is a story of broken engagements and
drunken suicide attempts, of parties where exquisitely dressed
couples tango in the jungle, a tale whose actors pursue lives of
Baudelairean excess with impeccable decorum.
Lyrical and witty, tragic and deliriously romantic, Running in the
family is an inspired marriage of travel narrative and family
memoir by one of our most eloquent and poetic writers.
Format: Audio Book (CD)
Published: April 30, 2006
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Language: English
The following ISBNs are associated with this title:
ISBN - 10: 0786170433
ISBN - 13: 9780786170432
