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Contributor(s): Patchett, Ann (Author)

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ISBN: 0062491792     ISBN-13: 9780062491794
Publisher: Harper
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2016
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Family Life - Marriage & Divorce
- Fiction | Coming Of Age
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2016028804
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" L (1.20 lbs) 336 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Family
- Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age
Features: Price on Product
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/01/2016 pg. 69
Publishers Weekly 05/09/2016
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2016 pg. 20
Booklist 07/01/2016 pg. 24
Library Journal 09/01/2016 pg. 102
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2016 pg. 15
Library Journal 04/01/2016
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 187916
Reading Level: 6.0   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 17.0
 
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Publisher Description:

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

#1 New York Times Bestseller NBCC Award Finalist New York Times Best Book of the Year USA Today Best Book TIME Magazine Top 10 Selection Oprah Favorite Book of 2016 New York Magazine Best Book of The Year

The acclaimed, bestselling author--winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize--tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives.

One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly--thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families.

Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond that is based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows up between them.

When, in her twenties, Franny begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story of her siblings is no longer hers to control. Their childhood becomes the basis for his wildly successful book, ultimately forcing them to come to terms with their losses, their guilt, and the deeply loyal connection they feel for one another.

Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration, interpretation, and the ownership of stories. It is a brilliant and tender tale of the far-reaching ties of love and responsibility that bind us together.


Contributor Bio(s): Patchett, Ann: -

ANN PATCHETT is the author of seven novels and three works of nonfiction. She is the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, England's Orange Prize, and the Book Sense Book of the Year, and was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She is the co-owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee, where she lives with her husband, Karl, and their dog, Sparky. annpatchett.com.


 
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