Bel Canto Annotated Edition - A Novel

Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country''s vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera''s most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening-until a band of gun-wielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, a moment of great beauty, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different continents become compatriots, intimate friends, and lovers. ''Patchett doing what she does best. . . . What gives this novel its power is Patchett''s flair for sketching the subtleties of her characters'' behavior.''-New York Times Book Review Freshman Common Book: NYU/Steinhardt School, Converse College, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ann Patchett, Ann Patchett
• Verlag: Harper Collins Usa
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 05.11.2024
• EAN: 9780063419360
• ISBN: 978-0-06-341936-0
• Seiten: 352
• Abmessung: 200 mm x 240 mm x 25 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Crime and mystery fiction, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Action & Adventure, FICTION: Crime, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: FICTION, FICTION: Sagas, FICTION: Coming of Age, FICTION: Small Town & Rural *, FICTION: Classics, FICTION: Psychological, FICTION: Romance / Multicultural & Interracial, HARPER PERENNIAL CLASSICS: FICTION, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Adventure / action fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary