Ann Patchett. Harper, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-018873-3
As her readers now eagerly anticipate, Patchett (The Magician's Assistant) can be counted on to deliver novels rich in imaginative bravado and psychological nuance. This fluid and assured narrative, inspired by a real incident, demonstrates her...
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Ann Patchett, Author . HarperCollins $23.95 (257p) ISBN 978-0-06-057214-3
This memoir of Patchett's friendship with Autobiography of a Face
author Lucy Grealy shares many insights into the nature of devotion. One of the best instances of this concerns a fable of ants and grasshoppers. When winter came, the hard-workin
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Ann Patchett, Author . Harper $25.95 (295p) ISBN 978-0-06-134063-5
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Novelists can no longer take it as an insult when people say their novels are like good television, because the finest American television is better written than most novels. Ann Patchett’s new one...
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Ann Patchett, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $33 (368p) ISBN 978-0-15-100263-4
As she proved in her two previous, critically praised novels, The Patron Saint of Liars and Taft, Patchett has the ability to leaven the gravity of sad situations with gentle irony and ultimate hope. Again in this novel, ordinary people drift into...
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Ann Patchett, Author Harper $14.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-06-134065-9
Just in time, novelist Patchett's 2006 commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College has been expanded, postscripted and published in a handsome small-format hardcover volume, cleverly designed by Chip Kidd and priced to sell-making it quite...
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Ann Patchett, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $21.95 (305p) ISBN 978-0-395-69461-9
Following her well-received debut, The Patron Saint of Liars , Patchett convincingly portrays a bar manager's conflicted feelings for a teenage waitress in this tale of fatherhood and unfulfilled dreams. Narrator John Nickel runs a bar called Muddy's
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Ann Patchett. HarperCollins, $28.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-223667-8
A collection of 22 essays (including a couple of commencement addresses) previously published by accomplished novelist and memoirist Patchett (State of Wonder; What Now?; etc.) offer generous glimpses of her rural, divorced Catholic Tennessee...
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Ann Patchett. Harper, $27.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-249179-4
Patchett (State of Wonder) draws from personal experience for a funny, sad, and ultimately heart-wrenching family portrait: a collage of parents, children, stepchildren, siblings, and stepsiblings. In 1960s California, lawyer Bert Cousins divorces...
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Ann Patchett, read by the author. HarperAudio, unabridged 10 CDs, 11.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-0-06-228286-6
Patchett’s collection of essays covers a variety of subjects including love, divorce, pets, writing, death, and a whole lot more. Fans and newcomers will find this a delightful mix of reflection, observation, amusement, and sincerity. In this audio...
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Ann Patchett, Author, Karen Ziemba, Read by HarperAudio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-143833-2
After working as his assistant for more than 20 years, Sabine marries her beloved boss, Parcifal, knowing that he's gay and has just lost his lover. What she doesn't find out until after his death from AIDS is that Parcifal was actually Guy Fettera...
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Ann Patchett. Harper, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-296367-3
A 1920s mansion worms into the lives of the broken family that occupies it in another masterly novel from Patchett (Commonwealth). In 1945, Brooklyn-born real-estate entrepreneur Cyril Conroy purchases the Dutch House in Elkins Park, outside...
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Ann Patchett. Harper, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-309278-5
In this eloquent collection, novelist Patchett (The Dutch House) meditates poignantly—and often with wry humor—on “what I needed, whom I loved, what I could let go, and how much energy the letting go would take.” In “How to Practice,” Patchett...
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Ann Patchett. Harper, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-332752-8
Patchett (The Dutch House) unspools a masterly family drama set in the early months of Covid-19. Lara and her husband live on a cherry orchard in northern Michigan, where they welcome their three adult daughters home to shelter in place. Emily, the...
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Ann Patchett, read by Hope Davis. HarperAudio, , unabridged, 9 CDs, 10.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-0-06-256172-5
In Patchett’s domestic tale, a stolen kiss at a christening party in the 1960s leads to a new blended family of six stepsiblings whom the novel follows over 50 years. Reader Davis, a well-known actress and frequent contributor to the radio program...
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Ann Patchett, illus. by Robin Preiss Glasser. HarperCollins, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-288338-4
The Farmer family’s lambs are extraordinarily adorable and remarkably self-centered: “Everything was about the lambs, as far as the lambs were concerned,” writes PEN/Faulkner Award-winning Patchett, making her children’s book debut. When young...
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Ann Patchett, illus. by Robin Preiss Glasser. HarperCollins, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-288339-1
In this follow-up to Lambslide, Patchett and Glasser return to the Farmers’ busy farm. This time, the focus is a happy-go-lucky unnamed goat who’s a serial escapee. He never goes far, and he causes little harm—climbing over the fence of his pen, he...
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Ann Patchett, illus. by Robin Preiss Glasser. HarperCollins, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-0630-6455-3
The similarities between pale-skinned siblings Estie and Ivan Vert begin and end with their curly brown hair—as their parents say, “Estie is Estie, and Ivan is Ivan.” On Ivan’s birthday, Estie impulsively throws a boisterous party, welcoming the...
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Edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman. Avid Reader, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-1-5011-9040-7
Husband and wife Chabon (Moonglow) and Waldman (A Really Good Day) gather dozens of prominent writers to commemorate the ACLU’s centennial with powerful, inspiring essays on the legal organization’s milestone cases. Addressing City of Chicago v....
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