... shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English Patient. 256 pp. In the Skin ... the Bloor Street Viaduct, formally named the Prince Edward Bridge, over the Don River Valley just after World War I and the digging out under Lake Ontario of the municipal Toronto water intake tu...

• Word Count: 3985
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School