#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • READ BY MERYL STREEP
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.
© 2023 HarperAudio (Lydbog): 9780063327559
Release date
Lydbog: 1. august 2023
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • READ BY MERYL STREEP
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.
© 2023 HarperAudio (Lydbog): 9780063327559
Release date
Lydbog: 1. august 2023
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Tone
22. aug. 2023
En meget smuk bog og helt fantastisk oplæst. Forhøjet realisme, mindede mig om Alice Munro i sine beskrivelser. En anelse sentimental i ny og næ og kunne tendere det sukkersøde, men også med et håb og en varme, som man måske kan have brug for i disse tider ❤️
Lise
23. jan. 2024
Fantastisk
Karina
11. sep. 2023
Jeg havde virkelig svært ved at finde ud af, hvad meningen var med denne bog. Det er en meget langsom familieskildring, og derfor ikke i sig selv super god underholdning, og der virkede ikke til at være nogle dybere tematiker til debat heller. Mærkelig læseoplevelse, synes jeg.
Patricia
24. sep. 2023
Great book and fantastic with Meryl Streep as the narrator.
Hannah
31. aug. 2023
En helt uimodståelig fortælling, Ann Patchett er en mester i mennesker. Og vidunderligt indtalt af Meryl Streep. Jeg var fortryllet.
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