Truth and Beauty: A Friendship (First British Edition)

Patchett, Ann

ISBN 10: 000719093X / ISBN 13: 9780007190935

Published by Harper Collins / Fourth Estate, London, 2004

London: 4th Estate, 2004. First British edition. First printing (with 1). Hardbound. Near Fine in a near fine jacket. A clean tight copy with slight spine slant and slight wear to head and foot of spine. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap (12.99). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. Seller Inventory # SNS-Memoir

Synopsis:

What happens when the person who is your family is someone you aren't bound to by blood? What happens when the person you promise to love and to honor for the rest of your life is not your lover, but your best friend? 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 Iowa Writers' Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work was. In her critically acclaimed and hugely successful memoir,Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy wrote about losing part of her jaw to childhood cancer, the years of chemotherapy and radiation, and then the 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. 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 book shows us what it means to be part of two lives that are intertwined.

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

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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Truth and Beauty: A Friendship (First ...
Publisher: Harper Collins / Fourth Estate, London
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: 1st Edition