Michael Ondaatje Express Yourself Beautifully

This illustrated biography offers a fascinating close-up of the life and work of an extremely private artist. Michael Ondaatje's life is as intense- and at times as dramatic- as his poetry and fiction, a series of intense moments followed by ruptures and dislocations. "Express Yourself Beautifully" covers Ondaatje's early years in Canada, his university years, his two marriages, and the evolution of his professional life, from the early 1960s to his winning of the Booker Prize for The English Patient in 1992.