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Sue Baker's view...
Ann Patchett is a novelist but her day job comprised writing non-fiction for magazines and newspapers, it paid the bills but as you learn in this collection of her writing, it’s also acted as a training ground, a point she makes in the introduction. Whether it is her ability as a novelist or this training the words seem to come effortlessly, something that takes more skill than many writers possess, there is a flow, a line of words that you follow not wanting to let go.
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Who is Sue Baker
The Good Book Guide Review. Novelist Ann Patchett began her career writing articles for magazines, and as she met deadlines and shaped complex topics and situations to fit column inches, so she honed her craft, becoming adept at presenting the essence of a subject in succinct, elegant prose. This collection includes many highlights from her non-fiction pieces, and is in itself a partial memoir, ranging over many personal experiences from the writing of her first novel, a painful first marriage and a happy second one, a lately acquired love of opera, and a long-time love of dogs. Warm and wise, her articles are marked by their clarity and easy fluency, and are highly recommended.
~ The Good Book Guide
Synopsis
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
Here, Ann Patchett shares entertaining and moving stories about her tumultuous childhood, her painful early divorce, the excitement of selling her first book, driving a Winnebago from Montana to Yellowstone Park, her joyous discovery of opera, scaling a six-foot wall in order to join the Los Angeles Police Department, the gradual loss of her beloved grandmother, starting her own bookshop in Nashville, her love for her very special dog and, of course, her eventual happy marriage. This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is a memoir both wide ranging and deeply personal, overflowing with close observation and emotional wisdom, told with wit, honesty and irresistible warmth.
Reviews
I hope it will not sound disrespectful if I say that I read this book for fun . But when I got to the end of the book, I realised I hadn't taken a single note. I had been so engaged by Ann Patchett's multifaceted story, so lured in by her confiding voice, that I forgot I was on the job . So compellingly personal you feel you're looking over her shoulder as she sits down to write' - International New York Times
'The pieces collected in This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage have exactly the tone of a good story told at a convivial dinner party, by someone who has told it often enough to have the timing down cold and who happily caters to her audience's desire ... Patchett writes gracefully' -- Laura Miller Guardian
'She has an authoritative, straightforward voice in exploring some of the milestones of her life ... A memoir about her friendship with the deeply tortured writer Lucy Grealy, form the most telling and moving selections ... Many of these selections reveal a candid, evolved self-reflection' - Publishers Weekly
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Publication date
14th August 2014Author
Ann PatchettMore books by Ann Patchett
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLCFormat
Paperback320 pages
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