Acclaim for Yann Martel's Life of Pi"Life of Pi is not just a readable and engaging novel, it's a finely twisted length of yarn&mdashyarn implying a far-fetched story you can't quite swallow whole, but can't dismissoutright. Life of Pi is in this tradition&mdasha story of uncertain veracity, made credible by theart of the yarn-spinner. Like its noteworthy ancestors, among which I take to be RobinsonCrusoe, Gulliver's Travels, the Ancient Mariner, Moby Dick and Pincher Martin,