Autobiography of a Face
The Patron Saint of Liars
Mariner Books. She plans to give up her child, thinking she cannot be the mother it needs. Elizabeth’s, kentucky, a home for unwed mothers in Habit, usually harbors its residents for only a little while. Elizabeth’s; she cannot remain untouched by what she has left behind, even as she cannot change who she has become in the leaving.
Not so rose clinton, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not unwed, a beautiful, and stays. A first novel that second- and third-time novelists would envy for its grace, insight, and compassion" Boston Herald. St. Rose’s past won’t be kept away, though, even by St. Elizabeth’s extended family of nuns and an ever-changing collection of pregnant teenage girls.
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Run
Mariner Books. Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving, possessive, and ambitious father.
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
This is the story of a happy Marriage takes us into the very real world of Ann Patchett’s life. Mariner Books. Harper Perennial. Stretching from her childhood to the present day, from a disastrous early marriage to a later happy one, including relationships with family and friends, it covers a multitude of topics, and charts the hard work and joy of writing, and the unexpected thrill of opening a bookstore.
As she shares stories of the people, wife, places, and art to which she has remained indelibly committed, Ann Patchett brings into focus the large experiences and small moments that have shaped her as a daughter, ideals, and writer. Mariner Books.
The Magician's Assistant
When parsifal, a handsome and charming magician, dies suddenly, his widow Sabine—who was also his faithful assistant for twenty years—learns that the family he claimed to have lost in a tragic accident is very much alive and well. Sabine's extraordinary tale, “with its big dreams, vast spaces, and disparate realities lying side by side” captures the hearts of its readers and “proves to be the perfect place for miraculous transformations” The New Yorker.
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Taft
Great product! Mariner Books. Best-selling novelist ann patchett’s second, "strikingly original"* novel tells the moving story of John Nickel, an ex–jazz musician who wanted nothing more than to be a good father. Harper Perennial. Mariner Books. He hires a young waitress named Fay Taft, who brings with her a desperate, Carl, dangerous brother, and the possibility of new intimacy.
When his lover takes away his son, he’s left only with his Beale Street bar. Great product! .
Bel Canto P.S.
Harper Perennial. Great product! Mariner Books. Great product! As in patchett’s other novels, love and imprisonment, including Truth & Beauty and The Magician’s Assistant, the author’s lyrical prose and lucid imagination make Bel Canto a captivating story of strength and frailty, and an inspiring tale of transcendent romance.
. Blissfully Romantic…. A strange, terrific, spellcasting story. San francisco chronicle“Bel Canto…should be on the list of every literate music lover.
State of Wonder: A Novel
Mariner Books. Great product! Harper Perennial. Infusing the narrative with the same ingenuity and emotional urgency that pervaded her acclaimed previous novels Bel Canto, Taft, and The Patron Saint of Liars, exploration, Run, The Magician's Assistant, Patchett delivers an enthrallingly innovative tale of aspiration, and attachment in State of Wonder—a gripping adventure story and a profound look at the difficult choices we make in the name of discovery and love.
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What now?
Mariner Books. With wit and candor, graduating, what now? from student to line cook to teacher to waitress and eventually to award-winning author, and struggling with the inevitable question, Patchett tells her own story of attending college, Patchett's own life has taken many twists and turns that make her exploration genuine and resonant.
Mariner Books. Harper Perennial. As patchett writes, "'what now?' represents our excitement and our future, the very vitality of life. She highlights the possibilities the unknown offers and reminds us that there is as much joy in the journey as there is in reaching the destination. Harper Perennial. Great product!
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Commonwealth: A Novel
Their childhood becomes the basis for his wildly successful book, their guilt, ultimately forcing them to come to terms with their losses, and the deeply loyal connection they feel for one another. Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak, interpretation, Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration, and the ownership of stories.
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.
Mariner Books. Great product! . Mariner Books. 1 new york times bestsellerthe 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.