Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Patchett, Ann

Truth & Beauty: A Friendship

"A loving testament to the work and reward of the best friendships, the kind where your arms...
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Author: Ann Patchett
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Language: English
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Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Patchett, Ann

Truth & Beauty: A Friendship

$28.98

Truth & Beauty: A Friendship

$28.98
Author: Ann Patchett
Format: Paperback
Language: English

"A loving testament to the work and reward of the best friendships, the kind where your arms can't distinguish burden from embrace." -- People

New York Times Bestselling author Ann Patchett's first work of nonfiction chronicling her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy.

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. In Gealy's critically acclaimed and hugely successful memoir, Autobiography of a Face, she wrote about losing part of her jaw to childhood cancer, years of chemotherapy and radiation, and endless reconstructive surgeries. In Truth & Beauty, the story isn't Lucy's life or Ann's life, but the parts of their lives they shared together. This is a portrait of unwavering commitment that spans twenty years, from the long cold winters of the Midwest, to surgical wards, to book parties in New York. Through love, fame, drugs, and despair, this is what it means to be part of two lives that are intertwined...and what happens when one is left behind.

This is a tender, brutal book about loving the person we cannot save. It is about loyalty and being uplifted by the sheer effervescence of someone who knew how to live life to the fullest.



Author: Ann Patchett
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 04/05/2005
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.40w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780060572150
Audience: Young Adult

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.5
Point Value: 13
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 101803 / Truth and Beauty: A Friendship


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 05/08/2005 pg. 28
Ingram Advance 04/01/2005 pg. 48 - Best Of The Best/Highly Recommended

About the Author
Patchett, Ann: -

Ann Patchett is the author of novels, most recently the #1 New York Times bestselling Tom Lake, works of nonfiction, and children's books. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the PEN/Faulkner, the Women's Prize for Fiction in the UK, and the Book Sense Book of the Year. Her novel The Dutch House was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages, and Time magazine named her one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. President Biden awarded her the National Humanities Medal in recognition of her contributions to American culture. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where she is the owner of Parnassus Books.

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