Michael Ondaatje is best known for his book turned movie The English Patient. Yet before he wrote The English Patient, Ondaatje penned In the Skin of a Lion, a hypnotically evocative novel set in 1920's Toronto.
The Subject Heading in WorldCat for In the Skin of a Lion says, “Poor—Ontario--Toronto--Fiction.” Assigning subjects to fiction inevitably falls short. A story that can be summed up with a simple subject is not one I want to read. It's true that welded to the frame of Ondaatje's n...