Divisadero - Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje is certainly my favourite author, but he's far from prolific, so I was thrilled to get his latest novel "Divisadero" and set all the other books on my reading pile aside for it, and I was not disappointed in the least. It is almost impossible to give a plot synopsis of this book. Much like some of Ondaatje's other books, this isn't a narrative that follows set literary patterns or rules. And while I felt that there was a type of linear feel to the novel as a whole, the overall feeling I had was more of a shifting spiral. I'm not sure this makes a great deal of sense, but I guess you can't help what you feel about a piece of art. ...  Read the complete review