Tom Lake

Informationen zum Autor Ann Patchett  is the author of novels, most recently the #1  New York Times  bestselling  Tom Lake , works of nonfiction, and children's books. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the PEN/Faulkner, the Women's Prize for Fiction in the UK, and the Book Sense Book of the Year. Her novel  The Dutch House  was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages, and  Time  magazine named her one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. President Biden awarded her the National Humanities Medal in recognition of her contributions to American culture. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where she is the owner of Parnassus Books. Klappentext #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers. “Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature.” —The Guardian In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew. Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today. Zusammenfassung #1  NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER • A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers. “Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature.” — The Guardian In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew. Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today. ...

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"Best of all in my reading experience this year was Ann Patchett's Tom Lake....It's a beautiful, loving story. And its echoes of Our Town are spot on." - Daily Kos
"This rich and subtle tale is infused with insight into love, loss and the power of making the right decisions." - Woman & Home (UK)
"Subversively wise and self-aware." - New Yorker
"Across her oeuvre Patchett has proven herself a generous, meticulous mentor, and Tom Lake is one of this year's triumphs." - Chapter 16
"Tom Lake is a book to be savored-the once-in-a-blue-moon type." - San Francisco Chronicle
"Tom Lake is Ann Patchett's best novel." - Hudson Review
"Meryl Streep...is ideal for narrating Tom Lake.... Streep delivers with her signature whimsy, her cadence lilting from wide-eyed innocence to winking wisdom, blurring the nostalgia for small-town Americana with dashes of big-city dreams." - New York Times Book Review
"Tom Lake...[takes] its time to marvel over the quiet drama of ordinary living: a strong marriage, a loving family, a place to gather at the end of the day." - Houston Chronicle
"Patchett is a writer of enormous warmth." - Wall Street Journal
"A quiet and reassuring book . . . highly conscious of . . . [the] human failure to appreciate the little things." - New York Times
"Tom Lake is a beautiful, stirring book that sneaks up on you and makes a deep impression, partly because you're left asking yourself: "What have I just read?" The moment I finished it, I wanted to go back and start again." - Sunday Times (London)
"Patchett celebrates not just the smallest events of our lives, but "small" lives themselves." - Financial Times
"A new Ann Patchett novel is always cause for celebration... and Tom lake could be one of her best." - inews
"A compelling narrative about the secret lives of parents-and how to find happiness in the midst of a long life." - Time
"Patchett, beloved bookseller and chronicler of people thrown together in patched families and hostage situations, turns her attention to love - youthful, marital, fleeting, enduring." - NPR
"Tom Lake is about romantic love, marital love and maternal love, but also the love of animals, the love of stories, love of the land and trees and the tiny, red, cordiform object that is a cherry. . . . This generous writer hits the mark again with her ninth novel." - Washington Post
"Tom Lake is a warm, funny book about kind people who do the best they can." - Minneapolis Star Tribune
"A tender, absorbing tale about becoming who we are." - People
"[Patchett] writes with deep attention to our country's changing culture while never taking her eye off narrative. Each book uses a traditional storytelling structure - lyrics, midrash, folk tales - while pushing at the edges of what a form can contain, cramming it with modern human concerns, triumphs and tragedies." - Los Angeles Times
"Tom Lake is about love in all its many forms. But it is also about death and the ephemeral and how everything goes by so damned fast. It is an elegy of sorts but also a promise that there will be magic no matter what." - Los Angeles Review of Books
"Patchett is a consummate storyteller whose fluid, naturalistic writing style makes reading her novels an effortless journey....Tom Lake does not disappoint."
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Product details

• Authors: Ann Patchett
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9780063335233
• ISBN: 978-0-06-333523-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Coming of age, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, WOMEN'S LITERATURE: LITERATURE/FICTION, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Family Life / General, FICTION: Romance / Contemporary, FICTION: Coming of Age, LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, FICTION: Psychological, FICTION: Multiple Timelines, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, Modern and Contemporary romance, FICTION: Biographical & Autofiction, Literature / General Fiction, Women's Literature / Literature/Fiction