Readers who grew up in America and loved Thornton Wilder’s Our Town (described by Edward Albee as “the greatest American play ever written”) will probably love Ann Patchett’s latest novel, Tom Lake. Our Town appears both explicitly and implicitly in...
~ The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett ~ This is a classically excellent family saga. I always look immensely forward to any new Patchett novel, and this was no disappointment. The Dutch House of the title is a lavish and...
~ Bel Canto ~ the book and film ~ If only Ang Lee had directed the film of Bel Canto. The exquisite novel by Ann Patchett is widely thought to be her best. It is approximately based on the 1996...
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