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Truth & Beauty: A Friendship - Paperback By Patchett, Ann - GOOD
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- ISBN
- 0060572159
- Book Title
- Truth and Beauty : a Friendship
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Nature
- Topic
- Women, Personal Memoirs, Literary, Essays
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 7.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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"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.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060572159
ISBN-13
9780060572150
eBay Product ID (ePID)
43429784
Product Key Features
Book Title
Truth and Beauty : a Friendship
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Women, Personal Memoirs, Literary, Essays
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Nature
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
7.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Rd661.G74p386 2004
Reviews
In her first nonfiction, novelist Patchett paints a deeply moving portrait of friendship between two talented writers, illuminating the bond between herself and poet Lucy Grealy...a tough and loving tribute, hard to put down, impossible to forget., If this honest book sends new readers out in search of Grealy's memoir, Patchett will have served her friend's memory well., "More than truth or beauty, it is love" -- San Francisco Chronicle "This is a loving testament to the work and reward of the best friendships, the kind where your arms can't distinguish burden from embrace." -- People "Unforgettable...carefully rendered and breathtaking." -- Chicago Sun-Times "An inspired duet...riveting." -- New York Times Book Review "A work every bit as entrancing, daring and smart as her fiction--channels her grief.[into] an electrifying portrait of Grealy, a bravura self-portrait and a stunning and insightful interpretation of an epic friendship...A generous and virtuoso performance." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution "This frank, perceptive book can be read in many ways, not only as a story of friendship but also as a young artist's eye-opening introduction to the wider world." -- New York Times "If this honest book sends new readers out in search of Grealy's memoir, Patchett will have served her friend's memory well." -- USA Today "In her first nonfiction, novelist Patchett paints a deeply moving portrait of friendship between two talented writers, illuminating the bond between herself and poet Lucy Grealy...a tough and loving tribute, hard to put down, impossible to forget." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Dazzling in its psychological interpretations, piquant in its wit, candid in its self-portraiture, and gracefully balanced between emotion and reason, this is an utterly involving and cathartic elegy that speaks to everyone who would do anything for their soul mate." -- Booklist (starred review) "[Truth & Beauty] shares many insights into the nature of devotion...This gorgeously written chronicle unfolds as an example of how friendships can contain more passion and affection than any in the romantic realm." -- Publishers Weekly "...lyrical, lovely...Patchett has preserved her friend's talent in this book, and provided more evidence of her own." -- BookPage "{a} loving, clear-sighted portrayal.." -- Elle "A contemporary story of friendship and the writing life at once intense, honest, and heartbreaking. Highly recommended." -- Library Journal (starred review) "An exquisite account of the close yet painful friendship...This is an intimate look into the lives of two successful writers, and the psychological demands of an extremely close friendship that ultimately ends in tragedy." -- Chicago Tribune "Patchett's is a book with a vortex at the center, and it's magnetic." -- Boston Globe "The reader mourns not only the loss of Lucy but the loss one feels when the pages of an enthralling book begin to thin and, as if suddenly, there is no more to read." -- Wall Street Journal "...a moving companion to Grealy's [Autobiography of a Face]." -- The New Yorker, Dazzling in its psychological interpretations, piquant in its wit, candid in its self-portraiture, and gracefully balanced between emotion and reason, this is an utterly involving and cathartic elegy that speaks to everyone who would do anything for their soul mate., A contemporary story of friendship and the writing life at once intense, honest, and heartbreaking. Highly recommended., A work every bit as entrancing, daring and smart as her fiction--channels her grief.[into] an electrifying portrait of Grealy, a bravura self-portrait and a stunning and insightful interpretation of an epic friendship...A generous and virtuoso performance., [Truth & Beauty] shares many insights into the nature of devotion...This gorgeously written chronicle unfolds as an example of how friendships can contain more passion and affection than any in the romantic realm., This frank, perceptive book can be read in many ways, not only as a story of friendship but also as a young artist's eye-opening introduction to the wider world., ...lyrical, lovely...Patchett has preserved her friend's talent in this book, and provided more evidence of her own., This is a loving testament to the work and reward of the best friendships, the kind where your arms can't distinguish burden from embrace.
Copyright Date
2004
Lccn
2003-067586
Dewey Decimal
362.196/994716/092 B
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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