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ISBN. 1-4088-1859-0. State of Wonder is a 2011 novel by American author Ann Patchett. It is the story of pharmacologist Marina Singh, who journeys to Brazil to bring back information about seemingly miraculous drug research being conducted there by her former teacher, Dr. Annick Swenson. The book was published by Bloomsbury in the United ...
Commonwealth. (Patchett novel) Commonwealth is the seventh novel by American author Ann Patchett, published in 2016. The novel begins with an illicit kiss that leads to an affair that destroys two marriages and creates a reluctantly blended family. In a series of vignettes spanning fifty years, it tells the story of the six children whose lives ...
Ann Patchett (born December 2, 1963) is an American author. She received the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction in the same year, for her novel Bel Canto . [1] [2] Patchett's other novels include The Patron Saint of Liars (1992), [3] Taft (1994), [4] The Magician's Assistant (1997), Run (2007), [5] State of Wonder (2011 ...
State of Wonder tells the remarkable tale of a strong, woman scientist studying the abnormal fertility patterns of an Amazonian tribe. In true Anne Patchett fashion, the novel explores the fine ...
Run received mixed reviews but was a New York Times bestseller. Leah Hager Cohen of The New York Times said in her review: "If Patchett had exhumed her characters’ motivations more thoroughly, she might have persuaded readers of the circumstances that led to such a choice. And in so doing she might have elicited deeper sympathy and interest.
Diana Gabaldon releases her ninth Outlander book, "Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone," and Ann Patchett returns with a collection of personal essays.
392. ISBN. 978-0-547-52020-9. The Patron Saint of Liars is a 1992 novel, written by Ann Patchett. This is the first novel published by Patchett, and it was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. [1] Patchett completed the manuscript for The Patron Saint of Liars during a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown ...
The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously called Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 & 2009–12), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–2008) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017)) is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes, annually awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English, and published ...