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By Sue Carter Flinn
August 26, 2011
10:50 AM

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Advance review: Michael Ondaatje’s The Cat’s Table

This review of Michael Ondaatje’s new novel, The Cat’s Table, will appear in the November issue of Q&Q.

Guest reviewer Ami Sands Brodoff writes:

Certain experiences are galvanizing and become indelible, shaping a life. Such is true of the sea voyage at the heart of Michael Ondaatje’s sixth novel, a story so enveloping and beautifully rendered, one is reluctant to disembark at the end of the journey.

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