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Ann Patchett

Truth and Beauty: A Friendship

Truth and Beauty: A Friendship

Ann Patchett

From the bestselling author of The Dutch House, Commonwealth and Bel Canto, Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction and the Pen/Faulkner Award.

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The Patron Saint of Liars

The Patron Saint of Liars

Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett's bestselling first novel about a young pregant mother and a Kentucky home for unwed mothers

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Taft

Taft

Ann Patchett

Orange Prize winner Ann Patchett's second novel. The story of a black Memphis blues bartender whose son has been taken away from him, but who then becomes a surrogate father when a beautiful 17-year-old white girl and her renegade...

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Bel Canto

Bel Canto

Ann Patchett

The poignant - and at times very funny - new novel from the author of `The Magician's Assistant', shortlisted for the Orange Prize.

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Bel Canto

Bel Canto

Ann Patchett

A strange, terrific, spellcasting story ( San Francisco Chronicle ), Bel Canto engenders in the reader the very passion for art and the language of music that its characters discover.

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The Magician's Assistant

The Magician’s Assistant

Ann Patchett

The Magician's Assistant is a love story and a portrayal of reinvention about a magician who dies leaving his assistant/wife to discover he has lied about his past.

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