Running in the Family Author:Michael Ondaatje 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... more » 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.« less