Commonwealth
Autor Ann Patchetten Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 mai 2017
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781408885307
ISBN-10: 1408885301
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 111 x 178 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Ediția:UK OME
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1408885301
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 111 x 178 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Ediția:UK OME
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Caracteristici
Winner of the Orange Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award, Ann Patchett is one of today's most acclaimed writers. Both Bel Canto and State of Wonder have sold nearly 150,000 copies in the UK and export
Notă biografică
Ann Patchett is the author of six novels and three works 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.
Recenzii
Patchett blends wisdom and humanity jointly with the icy forensic gaze of someone not afraid to expose the frailties of human behaviour ... Read it
Part of Patchett's design is to curve every type, bend every cliché, adulterate every formula . Subtle, startling and painful ... Commonwealth is one of the most discerning novels about siblings I can recall . Alive with provocative insights that sum up entire relationships
Stunning
Hugely entertaining and an unsettling joy to read
An outstanding novel ... The opening is a show stopper . Patchett is a pleasure to read: there is a no-fuss casualness to the prose that is only possible when a writer is in control of every word and she is master of her art
The opening scene .. is a faultless set piece ... Her prose is equally powerful when she's evoking a 1970s summer in Virginia . Patchett deftly summons up a simmering childhood anger and dangerously ricocheting energy
Patchett writes excellently and seemingly artlessly
Dazzling . sharply observed, ripe with humour, laden with significance . Her characters shimmer with life-likeness, and she pulls you into every one of her vibrantly drawn scenes with great ease . The combination of lightness, warmth and remarkable incisiveness creates a novel that is life-affirming and compulsively readable
The book flows easily between narrators, constantly switching from past to present, and slowly revealing what happened that summer, allowing Patchett to play with memory and perspective to surprisingly moving effect ... Commonwealth is a book about relationships and the obligations they bring .. Poignant ... funny ... An engaging novel that draws you in with sharp observation, a gin-fuelled plot written in beautiful prose and convincing dialogue. You miss the characters once it's over
She achieves the great novel of American domestic life with a spare hand and a demotic prose that seems to come from the mouths of her characters, even when they aren't speaking . Her unshowy account of public and private stories addresses the great puzzle of what our lives are really made of ... This novel convinces me she's wiping the floor with her heftier competitors
Commonwealth is full of heart, and is Patchett's most complex and emotionally suspenseful novel. She never hits a wrong note although she conjures with many deftly drawn characters. The opening chapter is one of the best party-scene seductions ever written
She is one of those rare writers, like Anne Enright or Anne Tyler, who is able to convey poignancy and humour in the space of a single sentence
So clear and clean and at the top of her game ... It is just so masterfully done. The sweep of it and the subtlety of the ideas
Beautiful
From the mesmerising first chapter to the final page, Ann Patchett's new novel is utterly brilliant. This domestic drama deals in loyalties, sibling rivalries, jealously and heartbreak in an effortlessly graceful style that makes for unputdownable reading
Gorgeously evocative writing and complex characters ... Patchett is a writer of exceptional talent, and this is one of her best yet
A deft craftsman . Patchett ultimately wins the reader over with her perceptive qualities, alluring characters and undertone of humour . In Commonwealth, Patchett's nimble storytelling floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee
This delicate exploration of the ties that bind us never seems to lose focus
An absorbing, brilliantly observed novel
Rich and engrossing . her observations about people and life are insightful; and her underlying tone is one of compassion and amusement . Patchett also skilfully illustrates the way that seemingly minor, even arbitrary decisions can have long-lasting consequences and the way that we often fear the wrong things
Delicious. From the moment a kiss at a christening ends up sparking the divide and re-merging of two families, I was drawn into the minutiae of the drama ... Patchett makes you feel like you've lived among it and have been subsumed into the newly drawn clan
Humourous and heartbreaking, this quietly brilliant collage of a novel also happens to be semi-autobiographical itself
Life-affirming and compulsively readable
Told with great sympathy and even greater wit - it should be said that Commonwealth is very funny indeed - this is a book to savour
At the heart of a novel is a family story that is appropriated by another character - an author - the consequences of which ripple out to every family member
I want to tell you how good Ann Patchett is. She's classy. She reminds me of Anne Tyler - superb at domestic details and very ambitious
Patchett moves through the gears very smoothly, from sexual attraction to disease and violent death. Exciting, and also poignant
When the tragic power of the story hits the reader, the effect is breathtaking. Patchett sucker-punches you, but leaves you feeling you had it coming - whether for underestimating her, her characters, or humanity, it is hard to say'
An outstanding novel . The opening is a show stopper ... Patchett is light, incisive and all-seeing ... She lets readers reflect on what is involved in stealing from life: emotional copyright is, in this unpushy and brilliant novel, more powerful than anyone dared suppose
Ann Patchett's cleverly crafted Commonwealth is one of her best, which for this writer is saying a great deal
Part of Patchett's design is to curve every type, bend every cliché, adulterate every formula . Subtle, startling and painful ... Commonwealth is one of the most discerning novels about siblings I can recall . Alive with provocative insights that sum up entire relationships
Stunning
Hugely entertaining and an unsettling joy to read
An outstanding novel ... The opening is a show stopper . Patchett is a pleasure to read: there is a no-fuss casualness to the prose that is only possible when a writer is in control of every word and she is master of her art
The opening scene .. is a faultless set piece ... Her prose is equally powerful when she's evoking a 1970s summer in Virginia . Patchett deftly summons up a simmering childhood anger and dangerously ricocheting energy
Patchett writes excellently and seemingly artlessly
Dazzling . sharply observed, ripe with humour, laden with significance . Her characters shimmer with life-likeness, and she pulls you into every one of her vibrantly drawn scenes with great ease . The combination of lightness, warmth and remarkable incisiveness creates a novel that is life-affirming and compulsively readable
The book flows easily between narrators, constantly switching from past to present, and slowly revealing what happened that summer, allowing Patchett to play with memory and perspective to surprisingly moving effect ... Commonwealth is a book about relationships and the obligations they bring .. Poignant ... funny ... An engaging novel that draws you in with sharp observation, a gin-fuelled plot written in beautiful prose and convincing dialogue. You miss the characters once it's over
She achieves the great novel of American domestic life with a spare hand and a demotic prose that seems to come from the mouths of her characters, even when they aren't speaking . Her unshowy account of public and private stories addresses the great puzzle of what our lives are really made of ... This novel convinces me she's wiping the floor with her heftier competitors
Commonwealth is full of heart, and is Patchett's most complex and emotionally suspenseful novel. She never hits a wrong note although she conjures with many deftly drawn characters. The opening chapter is one of the best party-scene seductions ever written
She is one of those rare writers, like Anne Enright or Anne Tyler, who is able to convey poignancy and humour in the space of a single sentence
So clear and clean and at the top of her game ... It is just so masterfully done. The sweep of it and the subtlety of the ideas
Beautiful
From the mesmerising first chapter to the final page, Ann Patchett's new novel is utterly brilliant. This domestic drama deals in loyalties, sibling rivalries, jealously and heartbreak in an effortlessly graceful style that makes for unputdownable reading
Gorgeously evocative writing and complex characters ... Patchett is a writer of exceptional talent, and this is one of her best yet
A deft craftsman . Patchett ultimately wins the reader over with her perceptive qualities, alluring characters and undertone of humour . In Commonwealth, Patchett's nimble storytelling floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee
This delicate exploration of the ties that bind us never seems to lose focus
An absorbing, brilliantly observed novel
Rich and engrossing . her observations about people and life are insightful; and her underlying tone is one of compassion and amusement . Patchett also skilfully illustrates the way that seemingly minor, even arbitrary decisions can have long-lasting consequences and the way that we often fear the wrong things
Delicious. From the moment a kiss at a christening ends up sparking the divide and re-merging of two families, I was drawn into the minutiae of the drama ... Patchett makes you feel like you've lived among it and have been subsumed into the newly drawn clan
Humourous and heartbreaking, this quietly brilliant collage of a novel also happens to be semi-autobiographical itself
Life-affirming and compulsively readable
Told with great sympathy and even greater wit - it should be said that Commonwealth is very funny indeed - this is a book to savour
At the heart of a novel is a family story that is appropriated by another character - an author - the consequences of which ripple out to every family member
I want to tell you how good Ann Patchett is. She's classy. She reminds me of Anne Tyler - superb at domestic details and very ambitious
Patchett moves through the gears very smoothly, from sexual attraction to disease and violent death. Exciting, and also poignant
When the tragic power of the story hits the reader, the effect is breathtaking. Patchett sucker-punches you, but leaves you feeling you had it coming - whether for underestimating her, her characters, or humanity, it is hard to say'
An outstanding novel . The opening is a show stopper ... Patchett is light, incisive and all-seeing ... She lets readers reflect on what is involved in stealing from life: emotional copyright is, in this unpushy and brilliant novel, more powerful than anyone dared suppose
Ann Patchett's cleverly crafted Commonwealth is one of her best, which for this writer is saying a great deal
Textul de pe ultima copertă
One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny’s mother, Beverly—thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families.
Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows among them.
When, in her twenties, Franny begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story of her siblings is no longer hers to control. Their childhood becomes the basis for his wildly successful book, ultimately forcing them to come to terms with their losses, their guilt, and the deeply loyal connection they feel for one another.
Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration, interpretation, and the ownership of stories. It is a brilliant and tender tale of the far-reaching ties of love and responsibility that bind us together.
Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows among them.
When, in her twenties, Franny begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story of her siblings is no longer hers to control. Their childhood becomes the basis for his wildly successful book, ultimately forcing them to come to terms with their losses, their guilt, and the deeply loyal connection they feel for one another.
Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration, interpretation, and the ownership of stories. It is a brilliant and tender tale of the far-reaching ties of love and responsibility that bind us together.