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Chargement... The Patron Saint of Liars (1992)par Ann Patchett
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 61. The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett reader: Julia Gibson OPD: 1992 format: 14:10 audible audiobook (352 pages in print) acquired: October 27 listened: Oct 27 – Nov 10 rating: 3½ genre/style: Novel theme: random audio locations: centered on 1968 San Diego & Kentucky, and 1983 Kentucky about the author: American author born in Los Angeles in 1963, who grew up mainly in Nashville. Ann Patchett's first novel. After an opening with a touch of Catholic-like mythology, Rose narrates her leaving her husband in 1968, without telling him she's pregnant. She doesn't give a reason, and he hasn't done anything wrong other then be really dull. But Rose takes the car, leaves San Diego and drives east for Habit, Kentucky and a Catholic home for unmarried pregnant women. That's part one. Son Abbott narrates part 2 and Rose's daughter narrates part 3. Rose is the subject of this book. She is somehow mysterious without really being mysterious. Her voice is strong, showing Patchett's power of clarity (for the first time). That makes Part one really good. There is psychological drama, literary games, Catholic themes and subversive themes. There's a lot going on. When the narrator switches, the book loses much of this dynamic, becomes just a story. It's not bad, and I wasn't tempted to bail. But the remaining 2/3 of the book felt a lot like a very very long epilogue. A few extra notes. Patchett has some significant autographical elements here. She herself did runoff from a marriage. As did her mother, in a way, leaving southern California for Nashville, TN somewhere in the vicinity of 1968, when Patchett was young (but very much born). I'm glad I read Patchett's first novel. I enjoyed it and I like having had a chance to get this window into her early writing. 2023 https://www.librarything.com/topic/354226#8281332 When Rose discovers she’s pregnant, she knows that she needs to get out of her marriage. She doesn’t love her husband or want to be married anymore and she doesn’t want to be a mother either. She sets off from California to Kentucky for a home for unwed mothers. She doesn’t tell her husband or her mother she’s pregnant or where she’s going – lies. She tells the nuns at the home that her husband died – a lie. Soon the lies are piling up. I dug deep into my TBR shelves for this book. I loved Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House and have been meaning to read more of her books. The Patron Saint of Liars, which is her first book, did not disappoint. Patchett is a master of character development. I liked how each of the main characters had their own section in the book and their own unique voice. I felt like I knew them inside and out. Fait l'objet d'une adaptation dansDistinctionsListes notables
St. Elizabeth's is a home for unwed mothers in the 1960s. Life there is not unpleasant, and for most, it is temporary. Not so for Rose, a beautiful, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not unwed. She plans to give up her baby because she knows she cannot be the mother it needs. But St. Elizabeth's is near a healing spring, and when Rose's time draws near, she cannot go through with her plans, not all of them. And she cannot remain forever untouched by what she has left behind . . . and who she has become in the leaving. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Enjoyed seeing a true artist shining in her writing craft, and very glad I read it, although the NYT blurb on the cover calling it "A fairy tale. A delight," was very misleading.
I did not find it to be that at all. ( )