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Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics.
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Often in collaboration with his longtime writing and production partner Jay Tarses, Tom Patchett worked on some of the most critically beloved television series of the 1970s and '80s, including the sitcom classic "The Bob Newhart Show" and the short-lived cult favorite "Buffalo Bill"; however,...
Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics.
Aug 30, 2023 · Ann Patchett’s “Tom Lake” may very well be the first pandemic novel that anyone actually likes. Set among the cherry trees of northern Michigan in the summer of 2020, narrator and ...
Jan 1, 2024 · Tom Lake is a gorgeous, slow-burning sort of novel by acclaimed author Ann Patchett. It follows Lara, her husband, and her grown daughters as they shelter from the pandemic in their cherry orchard. It follows Lara, her husband, and her grown daughters as they shelter from the pandemic in their cherry orchard.
Ann doesn’t have her own social media, but you can find her on all of the Parnassus Books platforms! Official website for Ann Patchett, owner of Parnassus Books and international best-selling author of Bel Canto, State of Wonder, and Commonwealth.
Tom Lake, a New York Times bestseller, is Ann Patchett’s 13th novel, published in 2023 by Harper. Patchett’s writing career began when she was still in college, and spans both fiction and nonfiction. She gained widespread recognition and acclaim with the publication of her fourth novel Bel Canto in 2001, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award and ...
