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Divisadero / Michael Ondaatje.

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  • ISBN: 0771068727
  • ISBN: 9780771068720 :
  • ISBN: 9780676979152 (pbk.) :
  • Physical Description: 273 p. ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart : 2007.
Subject: Sisters > Fiction.
Loss (Psychology) > Fiction.
Nineteen seventies > Fiction.
Teenage girls > Fiction.
Adopted children > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Ranch life > Fiction.
California > Fiction.
France > Fiction.
Genre: Domestic fiction.
Canadian fiction.

Available copies

  • 19 of 21 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Radium Hot Springs Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 21 total copies.
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Radium Hot Springs Public Library FIC OND (Text) 35130000111223 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -

  • Random House, Inc.
    From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time.

    In the 1970s in northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is riven by an incident of violence — of both hand and heart — that sets fire to the rest of their lives.

    Divisadero takes us from the city of San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada’s casinos, and eventually to the landscape of south central France. It is here, outside a small rural village, that Anna becomes immersed in the life and the world of a writer from an earlier time — Lucien Segura. His compelling story, which has its beginnings at the turn of the century, circles around “the raw truth” of Anna’s own life, the one she’s left behind but can never truly leave. And as the narrative moves back and forth in time and place, we discover each of the characters managing to find some foothold in a present rough-hewn from the past.

    Breathtakingly evoked and with unforgettable characters, Divisadero is a multi-layered novel about passion, loss, and the unshakable past, about the often discordant demands of family, love, and memory. It is Michael Ondaatje’s most intimate and beautiful novel to date.

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