Ann Patchett
Auteur de Bel Canto
A propos de l'auteur
Ann Patchett was born on December 2, 1963. She received the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2002 for her novel Bel Canto. Her other novels include The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft, The Magician's Assistant, and State of Wonder. She has also written several nonfiction works afficher plus including Truth and Beauty: A Friendship, The Getaway Car, The Bookshop Strikes Back, and This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage. Ann's title's Commonweatlth and The Patron Saint of Liars made the New York Time bestseller list. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Ann Patchett
Another Year: An Essay 15 exemplaires
The Shop Dogs of Parnassus 2 exemplaires
Patchett, Ann Archive 1 exemplaire
Ann Patchett Collection 3 Books Set (The Dutch House, Commonwealth, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage) (2020) 1 exemplaire
Der Sommer zu Hause: Roman (German Edition) 1 exemplaire
How to Practice 1 exemplaire
My Three Fathers 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop (2012) — Contributeur — 558 exemplaires
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone (2007) — Contributeur — 549 exemplaires
Writers on Writing, 2: More Collected Essays from the New York Times (2003) — Contributeur — 186 exemplaires
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Contributeur — 182 exemplaires
Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do (2013) — Contributeur — 179 exemplaires
Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation (2017) — Contributeur — 175 exemplaires
Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the New York Times (2008) — Contributeur — 167 exemplaires
An Innocent Abroad: Life-Changing Trips from 35 Great Writers (2014) — Contributeur — 71 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1963-12-02
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Etats-Unis
- Lieu de naissance
- Los Angeles, Californie, Etats-Unis
- Lieux de résidence
- Nashville, Tennessee, Etats-Unis
Los Angeles, Californie, Etats-Unis - Études
- Sarah Lawrence College
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts
St Bernard Academy - Professions
- novelist
- Relations
- Ray, Jeanne (Mère)
- Organisations
- Fellowship of Southern Writers
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2017) - Prix et distinctions
- Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement (2014)
National Humanities Medal (2021) - Agent
- Lisa Bankoff (ICM)
- Courte biographie
- Ann Patchett was born in Los Angeles in 1963 and raised in Nashville. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. In 1990, she won a residential fellowship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars. It was named a New York Times Notable Book for 1992. In 1993, she received a Bunting Fellowship from the Mary Ingrahm Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College. Patchett's second novel, Taft, was awarded the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for the best work of fiction in 1994. Her third novel, The Magician's Assistant, was short-listed for England's Orange Prize and earned her a Guggenheim Fellowship.Her next novel, Bel Canto, won both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in 2002, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was named the Book Sense Book of the Year. It sold more than a million copies in the United States and has been translated into thirty languages. In 2004, Patchett published Truth & Beauty, a memoir of her friendship with the writer Lucy Grealy. It was named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Entertainment Weekly. Truth & Beauty was also a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and won the Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize, the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Alex Award from the American Library Association. She was also the editor of Best American Short Stories 2006.Patchett has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times magazine, Harper's, The Atlantic,The Washington Post, Gourmet, and Vogue. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband, Karl VanDevender.
Membres
Discussions
BOOK DISCUSSION: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (contains SPOILERS) à Orange January/July (Avril 2021)
Ann Patchett: American Author Challenge à 75 Books Challenge for 2017 (Novembre 2017)
State of Wonder, Anne Patchett à World Reading Circle (Août 2014)
BOOK DISCUSSION: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett à Orange January/July (Mai 2012)
Reading Bel Canto (no spoilers yet please) à Orange January/July (Février 2012)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 30
- Aussi par
- 28
- Membres
- 45,749
- Popularité
- #354
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 2,097
- ISBN
- 395
- Langues
- 22
- Favoris
- 170
Après un moment de flottement, les terroristes, dirigés par le général Benjamin, décident de poursuivre la prise d'otages... une erreur tactique qui va entraîner un siège de plusieurs mois. Ann Patchett décrit à merveille le quotidien des protagonistes, dont la vie semble comme suspendue dans le temps. Dans chaque camp, la peur, puis l'ennui et la frustration font bientôt place à des sentiments plus solidaires voire amicaux (syndrome de Stockholm ?). Et, c'est sans doute là tout le drame de cette expérience, certes traumatisante, mais qui révèle les hommes à eux-mêmes.
Ann Patchett a superbement réussi son roman dans le fond comme dans la forme. Ainsi, elle a construit son roman à la manière d'un opéra : outre le rythme de l'action (vif-lent-vif, un tempo qui caractérise l'opéra italien), l'intrusion des éléments dramatiques et les nombreuses références (Tosca de Puccini, Carmen de Bizet, Rusalka de Dvorak...), elle établit sans cesse un parallèle entre lyrisme et événements vécus. Le réalisme de la narration rappelle la prise d'otages du théâtre de Moscou en octobre 2002 ou le drame survenu au Pérou en 1996 (la prise d'otages à l'ambassade du Japon par le mouvement Tupac Amaru). J'attends donc avec impatience la traduction de ses trois autres romans, car celui-ci est le seul avoir été publié en France, mais c'était logique de commencer par Bel Canto qui a reçu le prix Faulkner aux Etats-Unis.… (plus d'informations)