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From the acclaimed author of The Dutch House and Bel Canto comes a characteristically nuanced and emotionally intelligent novel of family, storytelling and the lives mothers lived before the births of their children.
This edition has exclusive sprayed page edges and is signed by the author - A Standard Edition is available here
In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake.
As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
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. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781526667106
Number of pages: 320
Dimensions: 234 x 153 mm
First of all, I have to be honest that I’m biased writing a review of an Ann Patchett novel. Her gentle deep exploration of human kindness and complexities mixed with her skilful storytelling always creates... More
As absorbing and engaging story. The family are reunited to work together on their farm as the covid restrictions leave them without support to harvest their cherry crop. To pass the time their mother recounts her... More
Tom Lake
by Ann Patchett
This is the book that made me do the happy dance when I received it because there's something about reading Ann Patchett that makes me glow. I have no words to describe her writing...
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