Category - Fiction / Romance
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Like New
Listed - 12 days ago
Views - 13
Ships From - Virginia
Est. Publication Date - Aug 2023
Seller Description
Read once 📚 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.
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Tom Lake: A Novel
ISBN: 9780063327528
Publisher Description
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America's finest writers. "Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather...
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PangoBooks readers generally appreciate the book for its beautiful writing, engaging character development, and the exploration of themes such as family, love, and life's decisions. The story, set during the lockdowns of the pandemic, focuses on a mother's recounting of her past to her grown daughters while they work together on their cherry farm. Some readers found the timeline and character behaviors initially confusing and believed more context might have helped. Despite a slow beginning, many found the reflection on life and relationships compelling, though a few felt it lacked the tension they expected. Those unfamiliar with the play "Our Town" might miss some references, but the book's subtlety and emotional depth are widely appreciated.