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Author: Ann Patchett
Narrator: Peter Francis James
Unabridged: 9 hr 19 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 09/25/2007
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Family Life, Political
Author: Ann Patchett
Narrator: Peter Francis James
Unabridged: 9 hr 19 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 09/25/2007
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Family Life, Political
It seems that some people are just natural born authors. American author, Ann Patchett, is one of those people. She was born in Los Angeles, California in 1963 to a police captain and a nurse, who divorced when Ann was a young girl. Her mother remarried and moved the family to Nashville, Tennessee in 1969.
Ann attended St Bernard Academy school for girls in Nashville, then attended Sarah Lawrence College, followed by the Iowa Writer's Workshop at University of Iowa and Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. It was Provincetown where she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars, followed by Taft, The Magician's Assistant, Bel Canto, Run, State of Wonder, and Commonwealth. Three of her books are non-fiction......Truth and Beauty, What Now?, and This is the Story of a Happy Marriage. Her first children's book came in 2019, Lambslide, and was beautifully illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser. Her books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
After winning numerous literary awards and being on bestseller lists, Ann co-founded her own bookstore, Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee with Karen Hayes. She currently lives in Nashville with her husband, Karl VanDevender, and their dog Sparky.
pro: you never know what you're going to get with ann patchett books! con: you never know what you're going to get with ann patchett books. and this was certainly no dutch house. CERTAINLY it was no truth and beauty. the top reviews of this book are extremely obnoxious, pretentious, and almost disturbi......more
You never know what’s going to lead you to your next book. A few months ago, I read (and loved) Ann Patchett’s essay collection These Precious Days. One of the essays included the information that Patchett had once considered adopting a child based on a story in her local newspaper. The adoption didn......more
Yep, BEL CANTO is an incredibly difficult act to follow. (But you & I already knew that!) Case in point: this tepid helping of family drama, a tearjerker more reminiscent of Patchett’s first novel THE PATRON ST OF LIARS (which, just like this, gets my overly-enthusiastic *** out of *****). Again, th......more
One out of the park for me - a complete surprise. It was a book club read that others had finished before I started, foolishly I read some of the comments and what I read was not encouraging. I started reading, thinking it was likely to be similar to Bel Canto which I found okayish but not memorable......more
As an admitted Anne Patchett fan, this is the third novel of hers that I have read. I had the good fortune to start her work with Bel Canto, which stands up respectably against some of my other all time favorites. Although this was still an enjoyable read, it did not leave me with the breathless ap......more