I adore Ondaatje. I haven't read Anil's Ghost (it's on some mental reading list for the future), but The English Patient is marvellous and I also loved In the Skin of the Lion. You might also like Timothy Findlay, who is not quite so poetic, but similar in some ways. And I think you would _definitely_ like Jeanette Winterson - try Sexing the Cherry or The Passion.
Honestly, I could slaughter high school English teachers with pretensions who could put students off reading for life by forcing them to slog through something like To the Lohthouse. Don't get me wrong - it's a pure and perfect novel and I adore it, but I don't think I would ever teach it. Maybe Dalloway (I'm thinking about it for 286), or Orlando, but it would need really really good teaching... I'm glad you were able to get something out of it - but what about the rest of the class?
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Honestly, I could slaughter high school English teachers with pretensions who could put students off reading for life by forcing them to slog through something like To the Lohthouse. Don't get me wrong - it's a pure and perfect novel and I adore it, but I don't think I would ever teach it. Maybe Dalloway (I'm thinking about it for 286), or Orlando, but it would need really really good teaching... I'm glad you were able to get something out of it - but what about the rest of the class?