Title:
The English patient : a novel
Author:
Summary:
After a badly burned pilot is pulled from the wreckage of his plane in the Sahara Desert, he's placed in the care of an army nurse and identified only as "the English patient". As his memory slowly returns, a passionate and consuming love affair with a married woman is unveiled, and lives from both the past and the present become inextricably altered.
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
The Villa -- In Near Ruins -- Sometime a Fire -- South Cairo 1930-1938 -- Katharine -- A Buried Plane -- In Situ -- The Holy Forest -- The Cave of Swimmers -- August.
Physical Description:
307 pages ; 22 cm
Geographic Term:
Publisher:
Alfred A. Knopf,
Electronic Access:
Sample text http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random044/92053089.htmlContributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random056/92053089.html
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random049/92053089.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random049/92053089.html
Publication Date:
1992
ISBN:
9780679416784
9780307700872
9780679745204
Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
Award Note:
Governor General's Award, 1992.
Call Number:
ONDAATJ