The Cats Table Book Review

Pages that lull you with their carefully constructed rhythm sailing you effortlessly from chapter to chapter and leaving you bereft when forced to disembark at the novels end. The cats table is a breathtaking account not only of boyhood but of its loss.

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At mealtimes he is seated at the cats table as far from the captains table as can b a spellbinding story by turns poignant and electrifying about the magical often forbidden discoveries of childhood and a lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a spectacular sea voyage.
It is a novel filled with utterly unique characters and situations but universal in its themes heartbreakingly so and a journey the reader will never forget vancouver sun canada.

At mealtimes he is seated at the cats tableas far from the captains table as can bewith a ragtag group of insignificant adults.
The feline quality of michael ondaatjes the cats table will appeal to anyone who wants to curl up with a playful novel that can bite.
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The cats table michael ondaatje 2011 knopf doubleday 288 pp.
Ondaatje gives us the cats table the opposite of the captains table and the most undesirable dining assignment aboard the cruise ship oronsay.
The story is an account of a young boys journey from ceylon present day sri lanka aboard a large linerthe oronsay in the early 1950s to england to live with his estranged mother.

This story of retrospection and introspection moves gracefully through a three week adventure when the narrator was an 11 year old boy traveling on a steamer from sri lanka to england.
The books preferred word for change is the more muted alteration as in.
This allows ondaatje to lay out an extraordinary assortment of characters like cards on a table shuffle and redeal them.

The cats table deserves to be recognized for the beauty and poetry of its writing.
This work the cats table even adds a certain european element to the prose that for this reader encompasses a decided mystery to the account that i found fascinating.
9780307744418 summary in the early 1950s an eleven year old boy in colombo boards a ship bound for england.

In the cats table ondaatje seems to lead the reader on a journey through three deeply submerged weeks in his own memory from the year 1954 when at age 11 he traveled on the ocean liner oronsay from colombo in what was then ceylon to england a passage that would lead him from his past.
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