The English Patient (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) by Michael Ondaatje Cross-Stitch Johnny Chuck's Secret VIII

Johnny Chuck's Secret VIII

Ellen Hoverkamp contributes her artful botanical images of flowers and plants discussed in the text

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- Artist: Gia Graham

"Walking Each Other Home" 8

The English Patient (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) by Michael Ondaatje Cross-Stitch Johnny Chuck's Secret VIIIMichael Ondaatje's Booker Prize winning best seller lyrically portrays the convergence of four damaged lives in a bomb riddled Italian villa in the last days of the war. Hana, the grieving nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the emotionally detached Indian sapper, Kip each is haunted in different ways by the riddle of the man they know only as the English patient, a nameless burn victim who lies swathed in bandages in an upstairs room. It is this