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Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto, examines her deepest commitments-- to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband-- creating a resonant portrait of her life.
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Contemporary, character-led, warm and spare.
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Ann Patchett
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 306
- Publisher
- Harper, Harper Collins, Inc.
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780062236678
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Ann Patchett was born in Los Angeles, California, and moved with her family to Nashville, Tennessee at age six. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. In 1990, during a residential fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars, which was named a New York Times Notable Book for 1992. Her second novel, Taft (1994), was awarded the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for fiction. Her fourth novel, Bel Canto (2001), won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize, and sold over a million copies in the United States. Her memoir, Truth & Beauty, which chronicled her relationship with L
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