Name: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage von Ann Patchett
SKU: 9781408842416
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This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage Zusammenfassung

This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage Ann Patchett

This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is an irresistible blend of literature and memoir revealing the big experiences and little moments that shaped Ann Patchett as a daughter, wife, friend and writer. Here, Ann Patchett shares entertaining and moving stories about her tumultuous childhood, her painful early divorce, the excitement of selling her first book, driving a Winnebago from Montana to Yellowstone Park, her joyous discovery of opera, scaling a six-foot wall in order to join the Los Angeles Police Department, the gradual loss of her beloved grandmother, starting her own bookshop in Nashville, her love for her very special dog and, of course, her eventual happy marriage. This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is a memoir both wide ranging and deeply personal, overflowing with close observation and emotional wisdom, told with wit, honesty and irresistible warmth.

This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage Bewertungen

I hope it will not sound disrespectful if I say that I read this book for fun ... But when I got to the end of the book, I realised I hadn't taken a single note. I had been so engaged by Ann Patchett's multifaceted story, so lured in by her confiding voice, that I forgot I was on the job ... So compellingly personal you feel you're looking over her shoulder as she sits down to write * International New York Times *
The pieces collected in This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage have exactly the tone of a good story told at a convivial dinner party, by someone who has told it often enough to have the timing down cold and who happily caters to her audience's desire ... Patchett writes gracefully -- Laura Miller * Guardian *
She has an authoritative, straightforward voice in exploring some of the milestones of her life ... A memoir about her friendship with the deeply tortured writer Lucy Grealy, form the most telling and moving selections ... Many of these selections reveal a candid, evolved self-reflection * Publishers Weekly *
Witty, warm reflections on life, love and art of fiction ... she speaks about the love and happiness of her second and enduring marriage with immense beauty and insight, and without an iota of smugness -- Arifa Akbar * Independent *
Electrically entertaining ... Each of these essays feels fresh and bright and, just as importantly, they seem to fit together to achieve a fascinating whole ... Funny, generous, spirited and kind * Julie Myerson, The Times *
Patchett's style at its best -- Matilda Bathurst * Spectator *
A brilliant mix of moving memoir and deeply personal essays ... consoling, inspiring, but, above all, true -- Kathryn Hughes * Mail on Sunday *

Über Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett is the author of six novels and three books of non-fiction. She has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction three times; with The Magician's Assistant in 1998, winning the prize with Bel Canto in 2002, and was most recently shortlisted with State of Wonder in 2012. She is also the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2012. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She is the co-owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee, where she lives with her husband, Karl, and their dog Sparky.

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Sku

GOR005943690

ISBN 13

9781408842416

ISBN 10

1408842416

Titel

This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage Ann Patchett

Autor

Ann Patchett

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Datum

2014-08-14

Anzahl der Seiten

320

Preise

N/A

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