![]() ![]() ![]() She told a story, and on a prose level, told it with unrivaled grace. Patchett didn’t promise a deep, searing examination of the causes or effects of terrorism, of social stratification, or of anything else. She hasn’t even got that sort of stuck up pretense of rebellion a lot of writers who manage to escape more conventional pretense wind up displaying. ![]() Name Asterisk on Review- Ma, “Harassment A…Īnn Patchett, “Bel Canto” (2001) – The main question this book raised for me was this: how to describe and rate a novel that has flawless prose, from sentence level to plot construction, but that is also, fundamentally, a little boring? That takes something notionally exciting - a hostage situation! wealthy socialites held by third world guerrillas! - and makes it, mostly, a site of examination for the personal regrets, cares, and in some cases growth of some of the hostages and hostage-takers?įine prose is one of the keys to Ann Patchett’s reputation. Review – Fountain, “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk”. ![]()
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