A review by girlpdf
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje

4.75

Just shy of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion for me, but still completely ridiculous and nearly overwhelming in its scale, deilcacy, violence, and beauty. I actually think there were moments of this work that I liked perhaps the most of anything he's ever written, but as an overall novel it lost its cohesion and lagged a little at times. Did I care? No. That reviewer said it best when they described the treatment of love in this novel as feverish, but I can't stress enough how steady and careful the pacing is in this work. Every aspect of the fever is controlled. The prose is delirious, the story is utterly sane even in its most unlikely moments. MICHAEL ONDAATJE WHO ARE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!