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	Ann Patchett Related Supplies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ann Patchett - Ann Patchett was born in Los Angeles in 1963, the youngest daughter of her nurse mother and police officer father.
		Ann Patchett Ann Patchett is the author of the novels Taft, The Magician's Assistant, Patron Saint of Liars...
		Ann Patchett - HarperAcademic - Ann Patchett - Ann Patchett was born in Los Angeles in 1963, the youngest daughter of her nurse mother and police officer father.
	www.medical-research-books.com /1mrb/Ann-Patchett (344 words)

	Online NewsHour: Conversation: Ann Patchett -- July 2, 2002
		ANN PATCHETT: When I was watching all of this unfold on the news-- and the book is about 98% fiction-- I thought this is so operatic what's happening in Lima.
		ANN PATCHETT: Well, it's about the power of language originally; how much everyone wants to be able to communicate through their own language and the traditional means they've always communicated before.
		ANN PATCHETT: It didn't seem a problem to me. And what was interesting was when I sent this book around to different editors-- of course it didn't come with a piece of paper from me saying, this is the based on the takeover of the Japanese embassy-- no one knew.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/conversation/july-dec02/patchett_7-02.html (1638 words)

	cheesedip.com: ann patchett & lucy grealy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I was almost done with the second to the last paragraph of Ann Patchett's essay "Friendship Envy" about "Sex and the City" and the complications of friendships when I put two and two together and realized the Lucy she mentions as having lost recently was Lucy Grealy, the author of Autobiography of a Face.
		Patchett published a very moving profile of both Grealy and their friendship in New York Magazine three months ago, well worth a read but be sure you have a box of tissues around if you're the crying type.
		Ann seems almost too bland and too accommodating to have much depth...maybe that's part of the author's attempt to widen the dramatic contrast between the two personalities and focus tighter on their differences, which she certainly does.
	cheesedip.com /2003/07/01/ann_patchett_lucy_grealy.php (15593 words)

	Beyond Lucy's despair, there was always Ann
		Ann Patchett's memoir about her intense friendship with fellow writer Lucy Grealy, who died of a heroin overdose in December 2002, is a portrait of addictive devotion.
		As Patchett describes it, she was the industrious ant who provided for the partying grasshopper; she supplied the food while the grasshopper supplied truth and beauty.
		Patchett was also the diligent worker who steadily plied her craft and turned out four acclaimed novels, including "The Magician's Assistant" and the best-seller "Bel Canto," while Grealy studiously avoided writing and frittered away her talent and money.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/05/16/RVGFH6HJDI1.DTL (775 words)

	Ann Patchett Wins Orange Prize for Fiction 2002
		Ann Patchett has won the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002 with Bel Canto (4th Estate), a tale of magic realism in which a group of international visitors are taken hostage.
		Ann Patchett was born in Los Angeles in 1963.
		She is the author of The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft and The Magician's Assistant (shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 1998), and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Nashville Banner Tennessee Writer of the Year Award in 1994.
	www.writenews.com /2002/062702_patchett_orange.htm (440 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Ann Patchett
		As Patchett's new novel opens, fifty-seven men, eighteen terrorists, and one remarkable opera singer begin their new life behind the closed doors of the vice presidential mansion.
		Patchett: Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.
		Patchett: If I wrote twenty books over the course of my life and at the end of it somebody said, "Gee, they were all about family," I don't think that's such a problem.
	www.powells.com /authors/patchett.html (3662 words)

	The Southern Register-Student Photo Exhibition
		Patchett has signed each of her four novels at the local store, beginning with The Patron Saint of Liars in 1992, and she was especially pleased to be in town shortly after the successful mayoral campaign of Square Books owner Richard Howorth.
		Patchett is "very, very happy to be thought of as a Southern author because Southern audiences have been very good to me." She estimates that readers from this region buy more of her books than people in other parts of the country.
		Patchett has occasionally taught creative writing at the University of the South and other schools for a semester at a time, leaving the rest of the year free for her own writing.
	olemiss.edu /depts/south/register/winter02/thirteen.htm (794 words)

	Powell's Books - Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ann Patchett has written a novel that is as lyrical and profound as it is unforgettable.
		About the Author: Ann Patchett is the author of three previous novels, "The Patron Saint of Liars, which was a "New York Times Notable Book of the Year; "Taft, which won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize; and "The Magician's Assistant, which earned her a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1994.
		Ann Patchett is the author of three previous novels: The Patron Saint of Liars, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; Taft and The Magician's Assistant She has written for many publications, including the New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and Vogue.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=2-0060934417-14 (2398 words)

	Holt Uncensored #350 :: 11/15/02
		Patchett didn't mind a little teasing about the fact that reviewers of her breakthrough novel, the masterly, "Bel Canto," wrote that she had been "toiling in obscurity" as a writer before the book was published.
		Patchett fits the profile of the born writer in that she has been writing successfully all her life, beginning at the age of 5, she announced to the City Arts audience.
		Certainly Patchett was born with a unique talent, but she has also put in the hours (by now the decades) that any serious writer needs in learning the craft, and it showed.
	www.holtuncensored.com /members/column350.html (4461 words)

	Biblio: TRUTH BEAUTY by PATCHETT ANN: Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Novelist Ann Patchett writes movingly about her longtime friend and fellow writer Lucy Grealy, author of AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FACE, who died at the age of 39.
		Patchett quotes from her friend's letters and poetry to construct a warm and rounded picture of an amazing, heartbreaking woman.
		Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writer's Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work.
	www.biblio.com /books/isbnnu/19364425.html (571 words)

	Truth & Beauty, Ann Patchett - HarperAcademic
		In Truth & Beauty, her frank and startlingly intimate first work of nonfiction, Ann Patchett shines a fresh, revealing light on the world of women's friendships and shows us what it means to stand together.
		Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowas Writers' Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work was.
		Ann chose to write about their friendship in a very frank and intimate way -- to pay tribute to Lucy's life and their whole relationship by recording the moments of triumph and joy, as well as the times of anguish and despair.
	www.harperacademic.com /catalog/guide_xml.asp?isbn=0060572140 (396 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Woman's Hour -Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
		Ann Patchett created a beautifully written novel which maintains the tension throughout the book.
		I also think she is clever by having the interpreter explore the different cultures.The love story needs no language at all and using the music as a universal means of communication is brilliant.
		Ann Patchett writes so well - the characters, the surroundings, the political climate, all these weave together to make a detailed, enthralling canvas.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/womanshour/bel_canto.shtml (851 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Taft by Ann Patchett
		Ann Patchett is the author of three previous novels, The Patron Saint of Liars, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; Taft, which won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize; and The Magician's Assistant, which earned her a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1994.
		Patchett attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she took writing classes with Alan Gurganus, Russell Banks, and Grace Paley.
		Patchett then went on to attend the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, and in 1990, she won a residential fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/taft2.asp (2075 words)

	Teenreads.com -- TRUTH & BEAUTY: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
		Patchett recreates her life with Grealy by interspersing their history with letters she received from Grealy over the years, postmarked from Scotland, New York, Providence, Connecticut, and all of the other places she traveled, taught and lived.
		Narrated by Patchett, TRUTH & BEAUTY could be described as an analysis of Grealy, a woman who fights an uphill battle to recover physically from a cancer that robbed her of her outward beauty as a child, though it amplified an inner beauty.
		The constant search for a love that seems to be right in front of a person's eyes is a recurring theme for Patchett, who weaves a beautiful if not frustrating story of a friendship that she worked diligently to maintain.
	www.teenreads.com /reviews/0060572159.asp (620 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Bel Canto - Ann Patchett - Paperback
		Patchett proves equal to her themes; the characters' relationships mirror the passion and pain of grand opera, and readers are swept up in a crescendo of emotional fervor.
		Patchett (The Patron Saint of Liars) generates little tension as she moves her players around the board, and one is disappointed that there is little reflection about the head-on clash of art and life.
		Patchett weaves individual histories of the hostages and the not-so-terrifying terrorists within a tapestry of their present life together.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=ho4qpL6AEw&isbn=0060934417&itm=1 (1778 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Truth and Beauty: A Friendship - Ann Patchett - Paperback
		Grealy died of a heroin overdose in 2002, at the age of thirty-nine, and Patchett’s memoir of her friend, whom she first met in college, reveals a level of anguish that was submerged in Grealy’s book.
		Patchett sees herself as the hardworking ant to Lucy’s glamorous grasshopper, with her life in New York, countless friends, and a habit of finishing work at the last minute.
		Ann's continued patience with Lucy's neediness and self absorbed behavior probably was either untrue or a sign of a mental problem with Ann.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=Rf4E3afBPB&isbn=0060572159&itm=2 (1215 words)

	'Bel Canto' by Ann Patchett
		Patchett drops hints early that the terrorists’ errors will cost them dearly in the end -- warming up our sympathy for their cause, which is to secure the release of family members from prison.
		Patchett cuts off the outside world and concentrates on the dynamics of captor-hostage friendships that blossom even at gunpoint.
		Patchett is so focused on the small human details that she tends to brainwash the reader, as she has her captives, that life has ceased to exist outside the walls of the cozy prison.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20010729review809.asp (691 words)

	Amazon.com: Bel Canto: A Novel: Books: Ann Patchett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Patchett gathers together a group that spans nationalities, professions and class and reveals the hidden depths, sometimes in a few short pages, through their interactions with each other.
		Patchett tells us at the beginning of the story what the end will be, and yet creates an aura of suspense as we realize that dreams of the future will never be fulfilled.
		Patchett's writing blossoms throughout this novel filled with unusual relationships that she is able to describe so vividly.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060934417?v=glance (3291 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Bel Canto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In her mesmerizing "Bel Canto", Ann Patchett develops a similar theme, dealing with the redemption, through art, of humanity from the petty political bonds that keep them separated.
		In putting forth this message, Ann Patchett is hardly being frivolous; instead, what she's doing is demonstrating that politics may be important, but art is the fuel that keeps us running.
		Patchett has woven an engrossing fiction about opera, terrorism, and Stockholm Syndrome - and her own artistic achievement is that she's able to make it all come together so perfectly, but try it for yourself!
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0060934417 (1679 words)

	Crescent Blues Book Views \| Ann Patchett: Bel Canto
		Ann Patchett's Bel Canto, a lyrical novel inspired by the 1996 Tupac Amaru guerilla takeover of an embassy in Peru presents an ambitious allegory.
		Patchett misses the radical differences of language and place that shape thought and act, the intimate details of culture that must be known before they can be implied -- before they legitimize myth.
		Patchett Americanizes rather than universalizes, and the tensions of individual and cultural difference set up at her novel's inception cede to what D.H. Lawrence called "the awful pudding of One identity."
	www.crescentblues.com /5_3issue/bk_belcanto.shtml (464 words)

	Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett: Book reviews, book club recommendations and recipes!
		Patchett (The Patron Saint of Liars; Bel Canto) tells this story chronologically, in bursts of dialogue, memory and snippets of Grealy's letters, moving from the unfolding of their deep connection in graduate school and into the more turbulent waters beyond.
		Patchett describes her attempts to be a writer, while Grealy endured a continuous round of operations as a result of her cancer.
		And although Patchett unflinchingly describes the difficulties she and Grealy faced in the years after grad school, she never loses the feeling she had the first time Grealy sprang into her arms: "[She] came through the door and it was there, huge and permanent and first." - Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
	www.wutheringbites.com /Read/bookpage2.asp?BookID=341 (789 words)

	The Best Reviews: Ann Patchett, Bel Canto Review
		Ann Patchett has put together an intriguing novel about some surprising aspects of human nature.
		The outward plot of her novel is the capture of a group of well-to-do socialites by a poverty-stricken South American terrorist organization.
		Patchett's dealing with the human side of her characters gives the novel great depth and understanding.
	thebestreviews.com /review14911 (351 words)

	Ann Patchett
		“Patchett doing what she does best -- What gives this novel its power is Patchett’s flair for sketching the subtleties of her characters’ behavior.”
		The story is riveting, the participants breathe and feel and are alive, and throughout this elegantly-told novel, music pours forth so spendidly that the reader hears it and is overwhelmed by its beauty.
		Ann Patchett is a special writer who has written a special book."
	www.annpatchett.com /belcanto.html (500 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Patron Saint of Liars: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Winner of the 2002 Orange Prize for her novel Bel Canto, Ann Patchett's stunning first novel is about 'pilgrimage and healing...A fairy tale.
		Ann Patchett is a very interesting writer, avoiding the formulaic, straining at the leash of conventional fiction to produce quietly unconventional novels.
		Ann Patchett likes characters who bury themselves in secrets and mystery, but she remains too obscure - you keep questioning her motives but not receiving any insights which ultimately left me unsatisfied
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1841150509 (1025 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Ann Patchett
		Ann Patchett was born in Los Angeles in 1963, the youngest daughter of her nurse mother and police officer father.
		Patchett's second novel, TAFT, was awarded the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for the best work of fiction in 1994.
		Ann Patchett's most recent novel, BEL CANTO, won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-patchett-ann.asp (261 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Truth & Beauty: A Friendship, by Ann Patchett, 2004.
		Patchett uses the metaphor of the ant and the grasshopper throughout the book; she the ant, valuing stability and middle-class values, Grealy the improvident grasshopper, cavalier about money and obligations.
		Patchett brilliantly shows the evolution of this friendship, where each found in the other something she craved, and the contrast between their characters.
		Patchett herself seems like a rarer find--her unstinting generosity to her friend (primarily emotional, but financial too) is remarkable.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2004/07/16/134951.php (1524 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Meet the Writers
		In Truth & Beauty, her first work of nonfiction, Ann Patchett shines a light on the world of women's friendships and shows us what it means to stand together.
		Patchett’s vibrant, graceful characters include a gay magician, his devoted assistant (who is also his wife), and the family she never knew he had until after his death.
		Patchett met Lucy Grealy in college in 1981, when the two aspiring authors were about to attend the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop together.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?cds2Pid=2789&cid=1020421&linkid=293881 (390 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "Bel Canto" by Ann Patchett
		With this scenario, you'd expect "Bel Canto" to be populated by the kind of romantic figures found in books and movies like "Chocolat," cartoonish outlines that invite the reader to step inside and fancy herself the embodiment of, say, Joyous Sensuality or the Human Spirit.
		For in spite of the ripe emotionality of "Bel Canto," Patchett proves herself from the start to be too unsentimental and honest to serve up a contrived ending.
		You can tell by the book's host of tart observations -- Patchett notes a hostage's preoccupation with getting clean underwear and points out the big wine stains that blotch the mansion's luxurious carpets after weeks of the occupation -- that this is one writer who won't bullshit us.
	www.salon.com /books/review/2001/06/22/patchett/print.html (833 words)

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