Ann Patchett

Broschiertes Buch

Tom Lake

Beschreibung

Dive into Tom Lake this Christmas - the breathtaking new novel from Ann Patchett _ THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER _ _ SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023 _ _ A REESE WITHERSPOON AND BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK _ _ A 2023 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES _'Filled with the moments I live for in a story' BONNIE GARMUS, author of Lessons in Chemistry'[Tom Lake] has it all ... Young love, sibling rivalry and deep mother-daughter relationships' REESE WITHERSPOON'One of the most beloved authors of her generation' SUNDAY TIMESThis is a story about Peter Duke who went on to be a famous actor.This is a story about falling in love with Peter Duke who wasn't famous at all.It's about falling so wildly in love with him - the way one will at twenty-four - that it felt like jumping off a roof at midnight.There was no way to foresee the mess it would come to in the end. It's spring and Lara's three grown daughters have returned to the family orchard. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the one story they've always longed to hear - of the film star with whom she shared a stage, and a romance, years before.Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents lead before their children are born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart.'One of our greatest living chroniclers of love and marriage . Expect wonder; Patchett always delivers' ELLE

Autor

Ann Patchett is the author of eight novels and three works of non-fiction. Her most recent novel The Dutch House was a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize. In 2002 she won the Orange Prize for Fiction with Bel Canto, a prize she has also twice been shortlisted for with The Magician's Assistant in 1998 and State of Wonder in 2012. She is also the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2012. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She is the co-owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee, where she lives with her husband, Karl.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing / Bloomsbury Trade
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 699845
• Seitenzahl: 309
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 151mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781526664280
• ISBN-10: 1526664283
• Artikelnr.: 67364771

Rezensionen

A bittersweet tale of family, heartbreak and hope ... Those who want fiction to soothe, bolster and cheer will love it Guardian