Author
Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett is the American novelist behind Bel Canto (2001, Orange Prize and PEN/Faulkner), Commonwealth (2016), The Dutch House (2019, Pulitzer finalist), Tom Lake (2023), and the bookstore-and-essay memoir These Precious Days (2021). Patchett co-owns Parnassus Books in Nashville and is one of the canonical contemporary American literary novelists.
Reviews
3
Books on file
3
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Years active
2001-2023
Reviewed
Our reviews of Ann Patchett's work
Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 2001 review. South American guerrillas take an opera singer and her audience hostage in a vice-presidential mansion. Orange Prize and PEN/Faulkner winner.
The Dutch House
by Ann Patchett
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett 2019 review. A brother and sister exiled from their childhood home park on the curb across the street for fifty years. Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Tom Lake
by Ann Patchett
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett 2023 review. A mother tells her three adult daughters about her brief romance with a future movie star while picking cherries during the COVID lockdown. Patchett's late-career literary commercial novel and the most-discussed Meryl Streep audiobook narration of 2023.
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What we have said about Ann Patchett
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 2001 review. South American guerrillas take an opera singer and her audience hostage in a vice-presidential mansion. Orange Prize and PEN/Faulkner winner.
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett 2019 review. A brother and sister exiled from their childhood home park on the curb across the street for fifty years. Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett 2023 review. A mother tells her three adult daughters about her brief romance with a future movie star while picking cherries during the COVID lockdown. Patchett's late-career literary commercial novel and the most-discussed Meryl Streep audiobook narration of 2023.