Commonwealth: A Novel - Softcover

Patchett, Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062666436 ISBN 13: 9780062666437

Publisher: Harper, 2017

Synopsis

Now available in mass market paperback! #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett returns with her most enthralling and commercial novel yet. COMMONWEALTH is the story of two broken families and the paths their lives take over the course of 40 years, through love and marriage, death and divorce, and a dark secret from childhood that lies underneath it all.

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Review:

Praise for Commonwealth
-Patchett brings humanity, humor, and a disarming affection to lovable, struggling characters... Irresistible.---Library Journal

-Exquisite... Commonwealth is impossible to put down.---New York Times

-(A) rich and engrossing new novel ...---New York Times Book Review

-Indeed, this is Patchett's most autobiographical novel, a sharply funny, chilling, entrancing, and profoundly affecting look into one family's -commonwealth,- its shared affinities, conflicts, loss, and love.---Booklist

-...a funny, sad, and ultimately heart-wrenching family portrait...Patchett elegantly manages a varied cast of characters...[Patchett is] at her peak in humor, humanity, and understanding people in challenging situations.---Publishers Weekly (starred review)

-The prose is lean and inviting...A satisfying meat-and-potatoes domestic novel from one of our finest writers.---Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

-Wonderfully executed...---Marie Claire

-Commonwealth is a smart, thoughtful novel about the ties that bind us.---Pop Sugar

-Commonwealth is an all-American family saga, but her touching and even-handed approach to themes such as family politics, love, the role of literature and the acidic nature of lies is buoyed by a generous sprinkling of matter-of-fact humor---BookPage

-Commonwealth bursts with keen insights into faithfulness, memory and mortality... [An] ambitious American epic...---Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Book Description:

A No. 1 New York Times bestseller, the powerful story of two families brought together by beauty and torn apart by tragedy, the new novel by the Orange Prize-winning author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder is her most astonishing yet

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0062666436
• ISBN 13: 9780062666437
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336