Tom Lake
This is a story about Peter Duke who went on to be a famous actor.
This is a story about falling in love with Peter Duke who wasn't famous at all.
It's about falling so wildly in love with him - the way one will at twenty-four - that it felt like jumping off a roof at midnight.
There was no way to foresee the mess it would come to in the end.
It's spring and Lara's three grown daughters have returned to the family orchard. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the one story they've always longed to hear - of the film star with whom she shared a stage, and a romance, years before.
Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents lead before their children are born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart.
'One of our greatest living chroniclers of love and marriage . Expect wonder; Patchett always delivers' ELLE
Review
A beautiful, stirring book that sneaks up on you and makes a deep impression ... The moment I finished it, I wanted to go back and start again ― Sunday Times
Few authors can dig into the minutiae of human emotion quite like the Women's Prize-winning author, and Tom Lake is one of her best ... Flitting between past and present, the novel spools out like a film, and ponders timeless questions about love, family and destiny ― i
Thoughtful and elegiac in its descriptions of first love and motherhood ... Patchett celebrates not just the smallest events of our lives, but 'small' lives themselves ― Financial Times
Patchett is always great on family dysfunction, and these scenes prickle to life ― The Times
A twinned narrative of a past young love, present day nostalgia and the complex, intertwined connections between mothers and daughters ... Enchanting and bittersweet, it is another tour de force from Patchett ― Harper's Bazaar
A deeply American story of love, heartbreak and wistful old age ... We're in nostalgic summer romance territory, and Tom Lake delivers the expected emotional pay-off ― Telegraph
Completely absorbing ― Grazia
Elegant, gloriously immersive, beautifully imagined, funny and tender, this is an elegy to family love, even when the world is a state of crisis and uncertainty. Ann Patchett leads us with the intelligence, detail, wit and nuance of the greatest chroniclers of human nature and relationships. Nothing escapes her -- Rachel Joyce
Filled with the moments I live for in a story - careful, compelling insights into human nature, the most effortless humour, and the kind of vivid descriptions that reveal exactly how something is -- Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY
One of our greatest living chroniclers of love and marriage - and its resounding impacts over generations - is back this summer ... Expect wonder; Patchett always delivers ― Elle
Patchett's intricate and subtle thematic web ... enfolds the nature of storytelling, the evolving dynamics of a family, and the complex interaction between destiny and choice ... These braided strands culminate in a denouement at once deeply sad and tenderly life-affirming. Poignant and reflective, cementing Patchett's stature as one of our finest novelists ― Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Masterly ... A love letter to both storytelling itself and the bonds that tie family and friends together,
Patchett has once again worked her unique brand of magic with this gentle, tender story that glows with heart and humanity
About the Author
Podrobnosti
| Autor |
Ann Patchett |
|---|---|
| Vydavatel |
Bloomsbury
50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, United Kingdom
enquiries@bloomsbury.com
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
+44 20 7631 5600
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| Jazyk | anglicky |
| Vazba | měkká |
| Počet stran | 320 |
| Formát | 15,3 × 23,4 cm |
| EAN | 9781526664280 |
| Rok vydání | 2023 |
| Edice |
Současná beletrie Vztahy, romantika, rodina |
Autor
Ann Patchett
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