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Acclaim for Yann Martels Life of Pi Life of Pi is not just a readable and engaging novel, its a finely twisted length of yarn—yarn implying a far-fetched story you cant quite swallow whole, but cant dismiss outright. Life of Pi is in this tradition—a story of uncertain veracity, made credible by the art of the yarn-spinner. Like its noteworthy ancestors, among which I take to be Robinson Crusoe, Gullivers Travels, the Ancient Mariner, Moby Dick and Pincher Martin, its a tale of disaster at sea coupled with miraculous survival—a boys adventure for grownups. —Margaret Atwood, The Sunday Times (London) A fabulous romp through an imagination by turns ecstatic, cunning, despairing and resilient, this novel is an impressive achievement. . . . Martel displays the clever voice and tremendous storytelling skills of an emerging master. —Publishers Weekly (starred review) [Life of Pi] has a buoyant, exotic, insistence reminiscent of Edgar Allen Poes most Gothic fiction. . . . Oddities abound and the storytelling is first-rate. Yann Martel has written a novel full of grisly reality, outlandish plot, inventive setting and thought-provoking questions about the value and purpose of fiction. —The Edmonton journal Martels ceaselessly clever writing . . . [and] artful, occasionally hilarious, internal dialogue . . . make a fine argument for the divinity of good art. —The Gazette Astounding and beautiful. . . . The book is a pleasure not only for the subtleties of its philosophy but also for its ingenious and surprising story. Martel is a confident, heartfelt artist, and his imagination is cared for in a writing style that is both unmistakable and marvelously reserved. The ending of Life of Pi... is a show of such sophisticated genius that I could scarcely keep my eyes in my head as I read it. —The Vancouver Sun I guarantee that you will not be able to put this book down. It is a realistic, gripping story of survival at sea. [Martels] imagination is powerful, his range enormou