Divisadero Hardcover | Pages: 273 pages

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Original Title:	Divisadero
ISBN:	0307266354 (ISBN13: 9780307266354)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	California(United States) France
Literary Awards:	Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2007), Governor General's
Literary Awards:	/ Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général for Fiction (2007)

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From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil's Ghost comes a remarkable, intimate novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California 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 shattered by an incident of violence that sets fire to the rest of their lives. Divisadero takes us from San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada's casinos and eventually to the landscape of southern France. As the narrative moves back and forth through time and place, we find each of the characters trying to find some foothold in a present shadowed by the past.

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Title	:	Divisadero
Author	:	Michael Ondaatje
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 273 pages
Published	:	May 29th 2007 by Knopf Publishing Group
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Novels. Literary Fiction. Contemporary

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Ratings: 3.5 From 10434 Users | 1528 Reviews

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This was a fascinating unfolding of story, and simply heavenly writing. What a giant he is.Divisadero begins as a Steinbeckian story of a small family in the Gold Rush country of California, circa around 1970--a rancher and his two daughters (his wife has died giving birth to one of them, and he left the hospital with another baby, whose mother has similarly died giving birth two her), plus the hired hand, who was taken in by the rancher when his own family was murdered, leaving him the sole

For those who have not read an Ondaatje book before, "Divisadero" may not be a good first start. A newer reader may be expecting a plot that rises and crashes as much as the one developed in "The English Patient," which Ondaatje became known best for after the success of the film version. (And even if you haven't watched the movie 10 times over like some of us, you get it: War, lust, affair, secrets, heartbreak, the end.)But for those who have eaten, lived and breathed his words relentlessly

God I did not like this book. Really, really did not like it. I read all the 4 and 5 star reviews, I get what people are saying, and I'm just not there. Why get us interested in characters and then abandon them? and why spend time telling us boring things about them (like a whole paragraph describing how she planted seeds in the field by scattering them instead of burying them) and then we find out about major dramatic events only in one passing sentence told as a part of someone else's

I very much enjoyed this book. But it was a little confusing toward the end. so I think it may need a second read. I came away with beautiful imagery of how people, specifically all the main characters fragment themselves. I think that the format of the book is also a story/metaphor of this fragmentation. I'm not saying that any of his other books has straight forward, linear, single protagonist narration, but this literally felt like the narration was shattering towards the end into more and

Oh my god. Every once in a while and this happens like maybe once a year, I find, you read a book that is just the RIGHT BOOK at the right time. And this is it. Amazing. Gorgeous. It's hard to even say. Because there is also a roughness to it, to the characters that is almost gripping. That and, ta-dah it is so intricately structured. I love structures that I want to think about. And this is one. I want to just turn it over and read it again and again.It also makes me want to go back and read

Maybe 4 +halfOndaatjes novels always seem somehow flawed, because theyre not like any other authors novels. They leave me a little confused and not a little mystifiedbut a confusion stemming from awe and wonder. Ondaatjes novels are poemsor, rather, collections of poems in prose of varied pace and pitchand they cant be read by the normal rules of novel-reading. So, to call Divisadero a strange and beautiful concoction is just to say its a Michael Ondaatje novel. I say all this because if youve

5 "hypnagogic" stars !! 2015 Silver Award (2nd Favorite Read) What is this book? Oh my goodness.... Oh my goodness.... Oh my God!!Mr. Ondaatje captured snippets of dreams and put them in a beautiful violet tinged jar and shook them gently until they coalesced into one syrupy whole.I wanted to read this book slowly but I could not as the prose had a force of its own. It made me quiver with melancholy and at times made my heart skip in joy. Everything unfinished but infused with a primitive