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Truth and Beauty: A Friendship
Ann Patchett
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Description for Truth and Beauty: A Friendship
Paperback. Bestselling author and Orange Prize winner Ann Patchett's first work of non-fiction is a searing, emotionally wrenching account of her long friendship with the critically acclaimed, and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BG; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200.
From the bestselling author of The Dutch House, Commonwealth and Bel Canto, Winner of The Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Pen/Faulkner Award.
When Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy met in college they began a friendship that would define their lives. Lucy Grealy lost part of her jaw to childhood cancer, and a large part of her life to chemotherapy and endless reconstructive surgeries. Stoic but vulnerable, damaged by bullying but fascinated by fame, Lucy had an incandescent personality that illuminated those around her.
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007196784
SKU
V9780007196784
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About Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett is the author of four previous novels, Bel Canto which won the Orange Prize, The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft and The Magician’s Assistant. She writes for the New York Times Magazine, Elle, GQ, The Paris Review and Vogue. She lives in Nashville,TN.
Reviews for Truth and Beauty: A Friendship
'A luminously detailed book…Truth & Beauty, Patchett's account of her relationship with Grealy, is not a story of commonplace camaraderie. Theirs is a love story, a first-love story, an account of devotion so intense that it compares to conventional friendship as closely as double cream does to Dream Topping' Observer ... Read more