Run - Brossura

Ann Patchett

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0061431540 ISBN 13: 9780061431548

Casa editrice: Harper Collins, New York, 2007

Riassunto

It s a winter evening in Boston and the temperature has drastically dropped as a blizzard approaches the city. On this fateful night, Bernard Doyle plans to meet his two adopted sons, Tip the older, and more serious and Teddy, the affectionate dreamer, at a Harvard auditorium to hear a speech given by Jesse Jackson. Doyle, an Irish Catholic and former Boston mayor, has done his best to keep his two sons interested in politics, from the day he and his now deceased wife became their parents, through their childhoods, and now in their lives as college students. Though the two boys are African-American, the bonds of the family s love have never been tested. But as the snow begins to falls, an accident triggers into motion a series of events that will forver change their lives.

This is at its very center, a novel about what truly defines family and the lengths we will go to protect our children. As she did in her bestselling novel BEL CANTO, Patchett beautifully weaves together seemingly disparate lives to show how intimately humans can connect. Stunning and powerful, RUN is sure to engage any Patchett fan and bring her even more admirers.

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Recensione:

This author specializes in delving beneath the surface...RUN shimmers with its author s rarefied eloquence, and with the deep resonance of her insights. (New York Times)

...full of affection and respect, for her characters and for the world, which is why reading her feels so elegant and so satisfying (O Magazine)

Ann Patchett serves up an emotionally generous fictional slice of urban Americana (Elle)

L'autore:

Ann Patchett is the author of four novels: The Patron Saint of Liars, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Taft, which won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, The Magician s Assistant, and Bel Canto, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Orange Prize, the Booksense Book of the Year Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her nonfiction book TRUTH & BEAUTY was a New York Times bestseller. Patchett has written for many publications, including Elle, The Paris Review, Gourmet, Vogue, Harper s and the New York Times Magazine. She lives in Nashville, TN.

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• Editore: Harper Collins, New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0061431540
• ISBN 13: 9780061431548
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 295