Michael Ondaatje

<p>Michael Ondaatje is the first comprehensive and fully up-to-date study of Ondaatje's entire oeuvre. Starting from Ondaatje's beginnings as a poet this volume offers an intensive account of each of his major publications including The Collected Works of Billy the Kid Coming Through Slaughter In The Skin of a Lion and The English Patient drawing attention to the various contexts and intertexts that have informed his work.<br><br>The book contains a broad overview of Ondaatje's career for students and readers coming to his work for the first time. It also offers an original reading of his writing which significantly revises conventional accounts of Ondaatje as a postmodern or postcolonial writer.<br><br>As the fullest account of Ondaatje's work to date Spinks's approach draws on a range of postcolonial theory and as well as being a landmark in Ondaatje scholarship makes a distinctive contribution to debates about postcolonial literature and the poetics of postmodernism.</p>