Run, Ann Patchett
Run, Ann Patchett
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Run

Author: Ann Patchett

Narrator: Peter Francis James

Unabridged: 9 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/25/2007


Synopsis

""Engaging, surprising, provocative and moving...a thoroughly intelligent book, an intimate domestic drama that nonetheless deals with big issues touching us all: religion, race, class, politics and, above all else, family."" -- Washington PostFrom New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett comes an engrossing story of one family on one fateful night in Boston where secrets are unlocked and new bonds are formed.Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving possessive and ambitions father. As the former mayor of Boston, Bernard Doyle wants to see is sons in politics, a dream the boys have never shared. But when an argument in a blinding New England snowstorm inadvertently causes an accident that involves a stranger and her child, all Bernard Doyle cares about is his ability to keep his children--all his children--safe.Set over a period of twenty-four hours, Run takes us from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard to a home for retired Catholic Priests in downtown Boston. It shows us how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexist only blocks apart from each other, and how family can include people you've never even met. As an in her bestselling novel, Bel Canto, Ann Patchett illustrates the humanity that connects disparate lives, weaving several stories into one surprising and endlessly moving narrative. Suspenseful and stunningly executed, Run is ultimately a novel about secrets, duty, responsibility, and the lengths we will go to protect our children.

About Ann Patchett

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by emma on August 17, 2022

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

Goodreads review by Glenn on March 25, 2022

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

Goodreads review by Fabian on January 17, 2019

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

Goodreads review by Kate on March 24, 2013

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

Goodreads review by John on February 09, 2008

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