Name: Run (P. S. )
Price: 20.27 EUR
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Author: Ann Patchett
ISBN: 9780061340642

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ann Patchett

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Year

2008

Language

English

Pages

295

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.8 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN

0061340642

ISBN13

9780061340642

Synopsis "Run (P. S. ) "

"Engaging, surprising, provocative and moving...a thoroughly intelligent book, an intimate domestic drama that nonetheless deals with big issues touching us all: religion, race, class, politics and, above all else, family." -- Washington PostFrom New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett comes an engrossing story of one family on one fateful night in Boston where secrets are unlocked and new bonds are formed. Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving possessive and ambitions father. As the former mayor of Boston, Bernard Doyle wants to see is sons in politics, a dream the boys have never shared. But when an argument in a blinding New England snowstorm inadvertently causes an accident that involves a stranger and her child, all Bernard Doyle cares about is his ability to keep his children--all his children--safe.Set over a period of twenty-four hours, Run takes us from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard to a home for retired Catholic Priests in downtown Boston. It shows us how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexist only blocks apart from each other, and how family can include people you've never even met. As an in her bestselling novel, Bel Canto, Ann Patchett illustrates the humanity that connects disparate lives, weaving several stories into one surprising and endlessly moving narrative. Suspenseful and stunningly executed, Run is ultimately a novel about secrets, duty, responsibility, and the lengths we will go to protect our children.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett es una reconocida escritora y ensayista estadounidense nacida el 2 de diciembre de 1963 en Los Angeles. Desde temprana edad se trasladó a Nashville, ciudad donde creció y desarrolló su interés por la literatura. Estudió en Sarah Lawrence College y posteriormente obtuvo una maestría en escritura creativa en la University of Iowa.

Inició su carrera literaria en la década de 1990 con la publicación de la novela The Patron Saint of Liars. Sin embargo, alcanzó reconocimiento internacional con Bel Canto, obra que recibió importantes premios, entre ellos el PEN/Faulkner Award y el Women's Prize for Fiction. Entre sus novelas más destacadas también se encuentran State of Wonder, Commonwealth, The Dutch House y Tom Lake.

Además de escribir, Patchett es una destacada promotora de la lectura. En 2011 cofundó Parnassus Books, una librería independiente que se ha convertido en un importante centro cultural. Su obra, traducida a numerosos idiomas, se caracteriza por explorar las relaciones humanas, la familia, la amistad y la búsqueda de identidad.

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