Tom Lake : a novel

Title:

Tom Lake : a novel

Author:

Summary:

In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew. Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today. -- Amazon.

General Note:

Reese's Book Club.

Series statement from hardcover edition of title.

Edition:

First Harper Large Print edition.

Physical Description:

452 pages (large print) ; 23 cm

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Romance fiction.

Large type books.

Subject Term:

Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.

Actors -- Fiction.

Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.

Storytelling -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,

Publication Date:

2023

ISBN:

9780063347724

Publication Information:

New York, NY : Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]

Call Number:

LP PATCHETT

Holds: Copies:

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Item Barcode	Collection	Call Number	Status	Item Holds
33607003609669	New Large Print Fiction	PATCHETT Ann	Searching... Unknown	Searching... Unavailable
33607003609677	New Large Print Fiction	PATCHETT Ann	Searching... Unknown	Searching... Unavailable

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America's finest writers.

"Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature." --The Guardian

In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.

Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.