Truth & Beauty: A Friendship - Hardcover

Ann Patchett

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786269715 ISBN 13: 9780786269716

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2004

Synopsis

A New York Times Bestseller

What happens when the person who is your family is someone you aren't bound to by blood? . . . when the person you promise to love and to honor for the rest of your life is not your lover, but your best friend? Ann Patchett's startlingly intimate first work of nonfiction tells the story of her friendship with writer Lucy Grealy, shining a fresh and revealing light on the world of women's friendships and showing us what it means to stand together.

About this title

About the Author:

Ann Patchett is the author of four previous novels, Bel Canto which won the Orange Prize, The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft and The Magician's Assistant. She writes for the New York Times Magazine, Elle, GQ, The Paris Review and Vogue. She lives in Nashville,TN.

From AudioFile:

The author of BEL CANTO reads this memoir of her friendship with writer Lucy Grealy, author of AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FACE, which chronicled the story of her facial deformity. Patchett gives a clear and pleasant voice to the twenty-year relationship, spanning the women's days at the famed University of Iowa Writing Program, their ambitious salad days, and Patchett's struggles to support Grealy as she put herself in the hands of countless plastic surgeons who made promises they could not keep. Patchett applies a sometimes tender, sometimes whining tone to Grealy's exuberant, yet obsessive, expressions of love and neediness toward her friend. At some points, one wonders why Patchett's narration doesn't interject more emotion. But by book's end, the listener senses that Patchett has triumphed in reading this heartbreaking remembrance, which ends with Grealy's death in 2002, without allowing her voice to crack. J.J.B. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0786269715
• ISBN 13: 9780786269716
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 397