Автор: Patchett, Ann Название: Commonwealth Intl ISBN: 0062666436 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062666437 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Рейтинг: Цена: 1044 р. Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление.
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#1 New York Times Bestseller
The acclaimed, bestselling authorwinner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prizetells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families lives.
One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keatings christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Frannys mother, Beverlythus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families.
Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved.
Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond that is based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows up between them.
When, in her twenties, Franny begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story of her siblings is no longer hers to control. Their childhood becomes the basis for his wildly successful book, ultimately forcing them to come to terms with their losses, their guilt, and the deeply loyal connection they feel for one another.
Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration, interpretation, and the ownership of stories. It is a brilliant and tender tale of the far-reaching ties of love and responsibility that bind us together.
Автор: Patchett, Ann Название: Commonwealth ISBN: 1408885301 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408885307 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 1142 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 'Dazzling ... The combination of lightness, warmth and remarkable incisiveness creates a novel that is life-affirming and compulsively readable' Sunday Times It is 1964: Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited and notices a heart stoppingly beautiful woman. When he kisses Beverly Keating, his host's wife, he sets in motion the joining of two families, whose shared fate will be defined on a day seven years later.
In 1988, Franny Keating, now twenty-four, is working as a cocktail waitress in Chicago. When she meets the famous author Leon Posen one night at the bar, and tells him about her family, she unwittingly relinquishes control over their story...
Автор: Ann Patchett Название: Truth and Beauty ISBN: 0007196784 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007196784 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1596 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Bestselling author and Orange Prize winner Ann Patchett`s first work of non-fiction is a searing, emotionally wrenching account of her long friendship with the critically acclaimed, and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy.
Автор: Patchett Ann Название: Commonwealth ISBN: 1408880369 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408880364 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 1632 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 'Dazzling ... The combination of lightness, warmth and remarkable incisiveness creates a novel that is life-affirming and compulsively readable' Sunday Times It is 1964: Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited and notices a heart stoppingly beautiful woman. When he kisses Beverly Keating, his host's wife, he sets in motion the joining of two families, whose shared fate will be defined on a day seven years later.
In 1988, Franny Keating, now twenty-four, is working as a cocktail waitress in Chicago. When she meets the famous author Leon Posen one night at the bar, and tells him about her family, she unwittingly relinquishes control over their story...
Автор: Ann Patchett Название: Bel Canto ISBN: 1841155837 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841155838 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1436 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Terrorists storm a gathering hosted by an underprivileged country to promote foreign interest and trade. When the translator plays a vital role in the subsequent relationships between different nationalities, it is the terrorist strike that most effectively promotes foreign relations.
Автор: Patchett Ann Название: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage ISBN: 0062236687 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062236685 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Рейтинг: Цена: 2090 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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The New York Times bestselling author of State of Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto creates a resonant portrait of a life in this collection of writings on love, friendship, work, and art.
"The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living."
So begins This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage, an examination of the things Ann Patchett is fully committed to the art and craft of writing, the depths of friendship, an elderly dog, and one spectacular nun. Writing nonfiction, which started off as a means of keeping her insufficiently lucrative fiction afloat, evolved over time to be its own kind of art, the art of telling the truth as opposed to the art of making things up. Bringing her narrative gifts to bear on her own life, Patchett uses insight and compassion to turn very personal experiences into stories that will resonate with every reader.
These essays twine to create both a portrait of life and a philosophy of life. Obstacles that at first appear insurmountable scaling a six-foot wall in order to join the Los Angeles Police Department, opening an independent bookstore, and sitting down to write a novel are eventually mastered with quiet tenacity and sheer force of will. The actual happy marriage, which was the one thing she felt she wasn't capable of, ultimately proves to be a metaphor as well as a fact: Patchett has devoted her life to the people and ideals she loves the most. An irresistible blend of literature and memoir, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is a unique examination of the heart, mind, and soul of one of our most revered and gifted writers."
Автор: Ann Patchett Название: Patron Saint of Liars, The ISBN: 1841150509 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841150505 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1436 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Winner of the 2002 Orange Prize for her novel Bel Canto, Ann Patchett's stunning first novel is about 'pilgrimage and healing...A fairy tale. A delight.' It is the 1960s. Rose Clinton arrives at St Elizabeth's, a Roman Catholic home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky. Rose is a young woman who has decided, to be 'a liar for the rest of my life'. She is pregnant but also married (athough at St Elizabeth's she claims to be unwed), fleeing her dull but loving husband without telling him she is pregnant. Nor does she tell her widowed and much-loved mother, whom she also abandons in penance for leaving her marriage. Rose plans to give her baby up because she knows she cannot be the mother it needs. But St. Elizabeth is near a healing spring, and when Rose's time draws near, she realises that she cannot go through with her plans. It is also clear that Rose cannot remain untouched by what she has left behind; by the ever-watchful Sister Evangeline; by the love of Son, the handyman at St. Elizabeth; or later by the birth of her daughter Cecilia.
Автор: Ann Patchett Название: Magician`s Assistant, The ISBN: 1857028155 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781857028157 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1436 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Third -- and breakthrough -- novel by an acclaimed American writer with an enchanting, quirky voice. The Magician's Assistant is at once a love story and a brilliant portrayal of reinvention about a magician who dies leaving his assistant/wife to discover he has lied about his past. A magician (with one memorable appearance on the Johnny Carson Show to his credit) takes the name Parsifal. He is gay. He has a Vietnamese lover, Phan. When Phan dies of AIDS, Parsifal marries the woman who has always adored him and who has lived with them both, his assistant Sabine. Then Parsifal himself dies in California, suddenly and shockingly, of an aneurysm. Parsifal always said that he had no living family and that he came from wealthy upscale Connecticut stock. The reality is very different, as Sabine learns from his lawyer. He came from a poor Nebraska family and they are very much alive. Indeed his mother and sister are on their way to California to meet Sabine, the daughter- and sister-in-law they know nothing about. It is bad that her husband has died. What Sabine must now cope with is coming to terms with his horrific past and the reason he divorced himself from his family and roots.
Автор: Patchett Ann Название: Commonwealth ISBN: 0062491792 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062491794 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 3251 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание:
The acclaimed, bestselling author winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families lives.
One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating s christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny s mother, Beverly thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families.
Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond that is based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows up between them.
When, in her twenties, Franny begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story of her siblings is no longer hers to control. Their childhood becomes the basis for his wildly successful book, ultimately forcing them to come to terms with their losses, their guilt, and the deeply loyal connection they feel for one another.
Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration, interpretation, and the ownership of stories. It is a brilliant and tender tale of the far-reaching ties of love and responsibility that bind us together."
Автор: Patchett Ann Название: This is the Story of a Happy Marriage ISBN: 1408842416 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408842416 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 1632 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Patchett Ann Название: Commonwealth LP ISBN: 0062566873 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062566874 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 3251 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание:
The acclaimed, bestselling author winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families lives.
One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating s christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny s mother, Beverly thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families.
Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond that is based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows up between them.
When, in her twenties, Franny begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story of her siblings is no longer hers to control. Their childhood becomes the basis for his wildly successful book, ultimately forcing them to come to terms with their losses, their guilt, and the deeply loyal connection they feel for one another.
Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration, interpretation, and the ownership of stories. It is a brilliant and tender tale of the far-reaching ties of love and responsibility that bind us together."
Автор: Patchett Ann Название: Bel Canto ISBN: 0060188731 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060188733 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 3019 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: A glorious novel about love and opera which takes place during a terrorist takeover at a party at a South American embassy, by the bestselling author of The Magician's Assistant.
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