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Ann Patchett

Autor/a de Bel Canto

30+ obres 45,749 Membres 2,097 Ressenyes 170 preferits

Sobre l'autor

Ann Patchett was born on December 2, 1963. She received the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2002 for her novel Bel Canto. Her other novels include The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft, The Magician's Assistant, and State of Wonder. She has also written several nonfiction works mostra'n més including Truth and Beauty: A Friendship, The Getaway Car, The Bookshop Strikes Back, and This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage. Ann's title's Commonweatlth and The Patron Saint of Liars made the New York Time bestseller list. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys

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Obres de Ann Patchett

Bel Canto (2001) 13,151 exemplars
State of Wonder (2001) 6,195 exemplars
The Dutch House (2019) 4,527 exemplars
Run (2007) 3,766 exemplars
Commonwealth (2016) 3,637 exemplars
The Magician's Assistant (1997) 3,228 exemplars
The Patron Saint of Liars (1992) 2,709 exemplars
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship (2004) 2,680 exemplars
Tom Lake (2023) 1,539 exemplars
These Precious Days: Essays (2021) 866 exemplars
Taft (1994) 778 exemplars
The Best American Short Stories 2006 (2006) — Editor — 548 exemplars
What Now? (2008) 383 exemplars

Obres associades

Autobiography of a Face (1994) — Epíleg, algunes edicions2,102 exemplars
The Future Dictionary of America (2004) — Col·laborador — 627 exemplars
State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America (2008) — Col·laborador — 515 exemplars
Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories (2011) — Introducció — 500 exemplars
Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting (2013) — Col·laborador — 263 exemplars
A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader (2018) — Col·laborador — 234 exemplars
Why I Write: Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction (1998) — Col·laborador — 187 exemplars
Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation (2017) — Col·laborador — 175 exemplars
The Best American Travel Writing 2007 (2007) — Col·laborador — 159 exemplars
Granta 114: Aliens (2011) — Col·laborador — 94 exemplars
The Worst Noel: Hellish Holiday Tales (2005) — Col·laborador — 92 exemplars
Vint sota trenta (1986) — Col·laborador — 90 exemplars
An Innocent Abroad: Life-Changing Trips from 35 Great Writers (2014) — Col·laborador — 71 exemplars
Best Food Writing 2003 (2003) — Col·laborador — 67 exemplars
Novel Voices (2003) — Col·laborador — 55 exemplars
Bel Canto [2018 film] (2018) — Original book — 21 exemplars
The New Great American Writers' Cookbook (2003) — Col·laborador — 21 exemplars
Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents (2019) — Col·laborador — 18 exemplars
The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels (2010) — Col·laborador — 14 exemplars
A Portrait of Southern Writers: Photographs (2000) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
Modern Fiction About Schoolteaching: An Anthology (1995) — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
The Patron Saint of Liars [1998 TV movie] (2005) — Original book — 1 exemplars

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Data de naixement
1963-12-02
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
Los Angeles, California, USA
Llocs de residència
Los Angeles, California, USA
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Educació
Sarah Lawrence College
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts
St Bernard Academy
Professions
novelist
Relacions
Ray, Jeanne (mother)
Organitzacions
Fellowship of Southern Writers
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2017)
Premis i honors
Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement (2014)
National Humanities Medal (2021)
Agent
Lisa Bankoff (ICM)
Biografia breu
Ann Patchett was born in Los Angeles in 1963 and raised in Nashville. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. In 1990, she won a residential fellowship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars. It was named a New York Times Notable Book for 1992. In 1993, she received a Bunting Fellowship from the Mary Ingrahm Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College. Patchett's second novel, Taft, was awarded the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for the best work of fiction in 1994. Her third novel, The Magician's Assistant, was short-listed for England's Orange Prize and earned her a Guggenheim Fellowship.Her next novel, Bel Canto, won both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in 2002, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was named the Book Sense Book of the Year. It sold more than a million copies in the United States and has been translated into thirty languages. In 2004, Patchett published Truth & Beauty, a memoir of her friendship with the writer Lucy Grealy. It was named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Entertainment Weekly. Truth & Beauty was also a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and won the Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize, the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Alex Award from the American Library Association. She was also the editor of Best American Short Stories 2006.Patchett has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times magazine, Harper's, The Atlantic,The Washington Post, Gourmet, and Vogue. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband, Karl VanDevender.

Membres

Converses

Ann Patchett: American Author Challenge a 75 Books Challenge for 2017 (novembre 2017)
State of Wonder, Anne Patchett a World Reading Circle (agost 2014)
BOOK DISCUSSION: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett a Orange January/July (maig 2012)
Reading Bel Canto (no spoilers yet please) a Orange January/July (febrer 2012)

Ressenyes

Interesting book that provides a look back to two parents’ younger lives, before they became a couple. The story revolves around a tragic character who became a famous actor and the relationships of the mother & father along with others at a summer stock playhouse in Michigan. Their play was Our Town.
 
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Caspaulding | Hi ha 79 ressenyes més | Mar 18, 2024 |
Loved this book. Great story. Well told and well written. Highly recommend
 
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xfitkitten | Hi ha 79 ressenyes més | Mar 16, 2024 |
4.25/5 A lovely tale of a mother's "carnival" past in summer-stock theater at Tom Lake, Lara feeds her three-robin-daughters with stories of her 20s actress life and first-love affair with Duke, a fellow actor. Set during the 2020 pandemic at a cherry farm in northern Michigan, Patchett weaves Lara's story between the past and present to show how to come to terms with the choices one makes and how to live an intentional life. Time now to reread OUR TOWN.
 
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crabbyabbe | Hi ha 79 ressenyes més | Mar 7, 2024 |
Tom Lake is not the kind of book I would normally pick up. It is a little deceiving; the floral pattern on the cover and the blurb about a summer of love with a soon-to-be-famous actor, all of these give it a somewhat frivolous impression. But, this book is a little deeper than that.

Tom Lake is about youth, choosing your own path and standing on your own two feet. And, how some periods in people's lives have a particular magical intensity that binds them to other people, even when they are not in each other's lives anymore. But, above all, it is about family and how its daily grind gives more meaning to life than a life of fame and short-term glitz.

What I like about Patchett is her dry, but emotional style that never sinks into sentimentality. But, there were dull moments and parts I wanted to just skip altogether. The book did get better towards the end, so I'm glad I didn't leave this unfinished. Also, there was a lot I appreciated, but didn't care for, like an hommage to [a:Thornton Wilder|44061|Thornton Wilder|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1206548453p2/44061.jpg] and Chekov's [b:The Three Sisters|143513|The Three Sisters|Anton Chekhov|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1416873197l/143513._SY75_.jpg|1000099]. A solid book, just not great.
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ZeljanaMaricFerli | Hi ha 79 ressenyes més | Mar 4, 2024 |

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Estadístiques

Obres
30
També de
28
Membres
45,749
Popularitat
#354
Valoració
3.9
Ressenyes
2,097
ISBN
395
Llengües
22
Preferit
170

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