What to read while staying home, from author Ann Patchett.
In 2006, writer Ann Patchett gave the commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College, her alma mater. The speech, a worthy addition to history’s most memorable graduation addresses, spurred such wide resonance that it was soon adapted into a small and lovely hardcover book titled What Now? (public library) and designed by none other than the great Chip Kidd — a fate not entirely uncommon.
This 52-page guide for “The Dutch House” by Ann Patchett includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 20 chapters, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis. Featured content includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay topics, and key themes like Wealth and Happiness and The Power of the Stories We Tell About Ourselves.
This essay analyses Ann Patchett’s novel Bel Canto (2001), discussing the relationship of literature and music in terms of the novel’s politics of representation. Patchett’s novel is characterised by a web of binary constructions built on otherness, both on the levels of content and form. The novel deals with a hostage-taking revolving around a fictional world-famous opera singer and an.
We recently made a call to Ann Patchett at her favorite spot on the globe—the handsome red brick house she shares with her husband on a tree-lined street in Nashville. The first part of our conversation is taken up with talk of dogs; Rose, Patchett’s great love and the subject of several essays, is now 15 years old.The author admits to carrying the dog in a baby sling on walks since.
Though Ann Patchett received her MFA from the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop, it is the writerly wisdom from her teachers at Sarah Lawrence College—Allan Gurganus, Russell Banks and the legendary short-story writer Grace Paley—that she mentions in her short e-book, The Getaway Car. Paley, who was a political activist, taught the future bestselling author of Bel Canto and last summer.
Ann Patchett’s novel Commonwealth chronicles the interwoven histories of the Keating and Cousins family following a chance encounter between Beverly Keating and Albert Cousins. This event leads to the dissolution of both their marriages and subsequent upheaval in the lives of all six children and four adults. Years later, Franny Keating tells her family her story to the novelist Leon Posen.
The Bookstore Strikes Back. Two years ago, when Nashville lost its only in-town bookstores, the novelist Ann Patchett decided to step into the breach. Parnassus Books, which Patchett and two.