Run by Ann Patchett: Summary and reviews.
Ann Patchett is an American novelist and essayist. She was born on December 2nd, 1963 in Los Angeles, California. After her parents divorced, her mother moved Ann and her sister to Tennessee; Ann was six at the time. Patchett graduated from Sarah Lawrence with a B.A. in 1984, and she earned an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1987.
As in her best-selling novel Bel Canto, Ann Patchett illustrates the humanity that connects disparate lives, weaving several stories into one surprising and endlessly moving narrative. Suspenseful and stunningly executed, Run is ultimately a novel about secrets, duty, responsibility, and the lengths we will go to protect our children.
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Ann Patchett’s new novel. Even so brief a summary reveals a certain playfully schematic quality to the author’s design: Tip and Teddy carry the names of New England’s most popular recent.
In this book, Patchett gathers 22 essays published between 1997 and 2012. What she ultimately produces is a text that is part meditation on the writing life and part literary memoir. From an early age, the Los Angeles native knew she wanted to be a writer, but she would be an adult before she realized that, in addition to making art, storytellers “also (had) to make a living.”.
As an in her bestselling novel, Bel Canto, Ann Patchett illustrates the humanity that connects disparate lives, weaving several stories into one surprising and endlessly moving narrative. Suspenseful and stunningly executed, Run is ultimately a novel about secrets, duty, responsibility, and the lengths we will go to protect our children.
Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder and Bel Canto examines her deepest commitments: to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband in This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage.Together, these essays, previously published in The Atlantic, Harper, Vogue, and The Washington Post, form a resonant portrait of a life lived with loyalty and with love.