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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ann Patchett, Ann Patchett
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.11.2024
• EAN: 9780063419360
• ISBN: 978-0-06-341936-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 200 mm x 240 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; 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