Ann Patchettová Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

V Michiganu je třešňová sezóna. Lara a její tři dcery mají plné ruce práce. Ale… vlastně je všechno jinak. Maisie a Nell mají být na univerzitě a třešně mají česat námezdní dělníci. Jenže se píše rok 2020 a ve světě zuří první vlna pandemie covidu 19. Lara je ale šťastná, farmaje svět sám pro sebe a ona má nečekaně celou rodinu zase pohromadě. A při česání dcerám vypráví o jednom létě kdysi dávno, o létě, které strávila u divadelní společnosti u jezera Tom s pozdější hollywoodskou hvězdou Peterem Dukem. Jezero Tom je nenápadné vyprávění o velkých věcech. O zamilování, o lásce, o divadle i environmentálním žalu. A také je oslavou rodiny a místa - farmy v Michiganu, s třešňovým sadem a hřbitůvkem na kopci, kde jednou všichni skončí. Ann Patchettová je mistrná vypravěčka, napětí střídají emoce, nostalgii nečekané dějové zvraty. A jedno je jisté, všichni bychom chtěli být u jezera Tom. Anebo česat třešně. Lara zažila obojí.

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to live.Following the deaths of her husband and son, Helen Cartwright returns to the English village of her childhood after living abroad for six decades. Her only wish is to die quickly and without fuss.Helen retreats into her home on Westminster Crescent, becoming a creature of routine and habit. Then, one cold autumn night, a chance encounter with an abandoned pet mouse on the street outside her house sets Helen on a surprising journey of friendship.Sipsworth is a reminder that there can be second chances. No matter what we have planned for ourselves, sometimes the world has plans of its own. Simon Van Booy’s lyrical storytelling is a delight even as it will fill your heart.

Recently out of a devastating love affair and mourning the loss of her beloved mum, Casey is lost. The novel she has been writing for six years isn't going anywhere, her debt is soaring, and at thirty-one, with all her friends getting married and having kids, she feels too old for things to be this way.Then she meets Silas. He is kind, handsome, interested. But only a few weeks later, Oscar - older, fascinating, troubled - walks into her life, his two boys in tow. Suddenly Casey finds herself at the point of a love triangle, torn between two very different relationships that promise two very different futures. And she's still got to write that book . . .

Na jar roku 2020 sa Larine tri dcéry vracajú do rodinného sadu v Severnom Michigane. Pri zbere čerešní prosia matku, aby im vyrozprávala príbeh Petra Dukea, slávneho herca, s ktorým pred rokmi zdieľala javisko, ale aj milostný románik v Divadle na Tomovom jazere. Keď Lara spomína na minulosť, jej dcéry sa obzerajú za vlastnými životmi a ich vzťahom s matkou, a sú nútené prehodnotiť svet a všetko, čo si doteraz mysleli, že vedia a poznajú. Divadlo na Tomovom jazere je meditáciou nad mladou láskou, manželstvom a životmi, ktoré rodičia viedli pred narodením detí. Kniha je plná nádeje a skúma, čo znamená byť šťastný, aj keď sa svet okolo rúca. Ann Patchettová tu rovnako ako v románe Holandský dom, ktorý bol nominovaný na Pulitzerovu cenu, spája podmanivé rozprávačské umenie s prenikavým pohľadom na rodinnú dynamiku. Výsledkom je bohatý príbeh, vyrozprávaný s hlbokou múdrosťou a jemnosťou, ktorý opäť dokazuje, prečo je autorka jedným z najuznávanejších literárnych talentov súčasnosti.

Any story that starts will also end.' As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth as she explores family, friendship, marriage, failure, success, and what it all means. A literary alchemist, Patchett plumbs the depths of her experiences to create gold: essays that are both self-portrait and landscape, each vibrant with emotion and rich in insight. Ranging from the personal - her portrait of the three men she called her fathers; unexpectedly falling into a life-changing friendship with Tom Hanks; how to answer when someone asks why you don't have children - to the sublime - exploring the Harvard Museum of Natural History before its doors open; the unexpected influence of Snoopy; the importance of knitting - each essay transforms the particular into the universal, letting us all see our own worlds anew. Illuminating, penetrating, funny and generous, These Precious Days is joyful time spent in the company of one of our greatest living authors.

Danny žije na predmestí Filadelfie v impozantnom Holandskom dome, ktorý po smrti majiteľov kúpil jeho otec, podnikateľ s nehnuteľnosťami. Vyrastá bez matky, s citovo chladným otcom, no pod ochrannými krídlami pôvabnej a nadanej staršej sestry Maeve. K sestre ho viaže pevné puto. Ich detstvo plynie príjemne a predvídateľne pod ostražitými pohľadmi portrétov pôvodných majiteľov domu, kým si otec jedného dňa neprivedie Andreu, vdovu s dvoma dcérami. Onedlho sa s ňou ožení.. Jej pričinením napokon Danny a Maeve prídu o milovaný domov a životnú istotu. Nevyrovnajú sa s tým ani potom, keď sa osamostatnia, a trauma z detstva ich prenasleduje celé desaťročia. Súrodenci sa pravidelne vracajú na miesto, kam nemajú prístup, a márne klopú na zamknuté dvere minulosti. Neprítomnosť matky je príčinou ich vynúteného vyhnanstva a ovplyvňuje ich väčšmi než ľudia, ktorí sú súčasťou ich dospelého života. Zdá sa, že raj detstva je navždy stratený. No jedného dňa osud nanovo zamieša karty... Holandský dom je príbeh o rodine, láske, zrade, zodpovednosti a obeti, o mocných putách času a citovej závislosti od miest, ktoré nás celý život magicky priťahujú

...masterful and affecting stories, essays, and poems by 36 writers profoundly attuned to the sources and implications of social rupture. These are sharply inquisitive and provocative works... - Booklist (starred review) Urgent, worthy reportage from our fractious, volatile social and cultural moment. - Kirkus

Ann Patchett erzählt, wie sie 2011, nach der Schließung der letzten unabhängigen Buchhandlung in Nashville, entschied, selbst eine zu eröffnen: The Parnassus Bookshop. Ihr Werk ist ein kluges und wichtiges Plädoyer für den Erhalt des unabhängigen Buchhandels und des Lesens.

Patchett blends wisdom and humanity jointly with the icy forensic gaze of someone not afraid to expose the frailties of human behaviour ... Read it Jojo Moyes

Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto, examines her deepest commitments—to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband—creating a resonant portrait of a life in This is the Story of a Happy Marriage. This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage takes us into the very real world of Ann Patchett’s life. Stretching from her childhood to the present day, from a disastrous early marriage to a later happy one, it covers a multitude of topics, including relationships with family and friends, and charts the hard work and joy of writing, and the unexpected thrill of opening a bookstore. As she shares stories of the people, places, ideals, and art to which she has remained indelibly committed, Ann Patchett brings into focus the large experiences and small moments that have shaped her as a daughter, wife, and writer.

In a narrative replete with poison arrows, devouring snakes, scientific miracles, and spiritual transformations, State of Wonder presents a world of stunning surprise and danger, rich in emotional resonance and moral complexity. As Dr. Marina Singh embarks upon an uncertain odyssey into the insect-infested Amazon, she will be forced to surrender herself to the lush but forbidding world that awaits within the jungle. Charged with finding her former mentor Dr. Annick Swenson, a researcher who has disappeared while working on a valuable new drug, she will have to confront her own memories of tragedy and sacrifice as she journeys into the unforgiving heart of darkness. Stirring and luminous, State of Wonder is a world unto itself, where unlikely beauty stands beside unimaginable loss beneath the rain forest's jeweled canopy.

A moving story of overlapping lives from the prizewinning author of Bel Canto

Presents a collection of stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada.

Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gunwielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, a moment of great beauty, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different continents become compatriots, intimate friends, and lovers.

In this anthology, 26 writers illuminate the motivations at the heart of their creative lives in original essays that are as surprising and varied as their fiction. The contributors include Pat Conroy, Norman Mailor, Rick Moody and David Foster Wallace.

Ann Patchett's second novel to be published in the UK, following the Orange Prize-shortlisted 'The Magician's Assistant'.

Third - and breakthrough - novel by an acclaimed American writer with an enchanting, quirky voice. `The Magician's Assistant' is at once a love story and a brilliant portrayal of reinvention about a magician who dies leaving his assistant/wife to discover he has lied about his past.

Rose, a beautiful and mysterious woman living at St. Elizabeth's home for unwed mother, has no intention of telling her mother or her husband about her pregnancy, until a healing spring near the home changes her mind.