Larger	The Story Author: Michael Ondaatje
	Book Information Publisher: House of Anansi Press Book Type: Hardcover Members Wishing: 4 Rating: ? ISBN-13: 9780887841941 - ISBN-10: 0887841945 Publication Date: 3/10/2006 Pages: 48

Michael Ondaatje's poems have been celebrated by readers and writers alike for containing some of the most memorable and moving verse written in the past half-century. The Story combines Ondaatje's sensual writing with watercolor illustrations by celebrated painter David Bolduc, making a unique item. Left-hand pages contain Bolduc's art while right-hand pages contain Ondaatje's poem — both typeset and in the author's own handwriting. This elegant housing is a fitting accompaniment to Ondaatje's elegaic poem, which follows his larger themes — love, memory, family, exile — even as it unfolds into "our dismantled childhoods," and offers readers the opportunity to extend its narrative into their own lives.