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The Patron Saint of Liars av Ann Patchett
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The Patron Saint of Liars (urspr publ 1992; utgåvan 2003)

av Ann Patchett (Författare)

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St. Elizabeth's is a home for unwed mothers in the 1960s. Life there is not unpleasant, and for most, it is temporary. Not so for Rose, a beautiful, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not unwed. She plans to give up her baby because she knows she cannot be the mother it needs. But St. Elizabeth's is near a healing spring, and when Rose's time draws near, she cannot go through with her plans, not all of them. And she cannot remain forever untouched by what she has left behind . . . and who she has become in the leaving.… (mer)
Medlem:stevesmits
Titel:The Patron Saint of Liars
Författare:Ann Patchett (Författare)
Info:HarpPeren (2003), Edition: 1st Perennial ed, 352 pages
Samlingar:Ditt bibliotek
Betyg:****
Taggar:Ingen/inga

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The Patron Saint of Liars av Ann Patchett (1992)

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This is my first Ann Patchett, recommended by my voracious but well-informed neighbor. I was swept away by Patchett's prose, her constant, pitch-perfect ability to highlight the telling detail. The characters were infuriating, dear, and captivating by turns.

Enjoyed seeing a true artist shining in her writing craft, and very glad I read it, although the NYT blurb on the cover calling it "A fairy tale. A delight," was very misleading.

I did not find it to be that at all. ( )
1 rösta BethOwl | Jan 24, 2024 |
I usually don't read the same author back to back like this but I just love her writing style and can't seem to get enough. ( )
  DKnight0918 | Dec 23, 2023 |
61. The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
reader: Julia Gibson
OPD: 1992
format: 14:10 audible audiobook (352 pages in print)
acquired: October 27 listened: Oct 27 – Nov 10
rating: 3½
genre/style: Novel theme: random audio
locations: centered on 1968 San Diego & Kentucky, and 1983 Kentucky
about the author: American author born in Los Angeles in 1963, who grew up mainly in Nashville.

Ann Patchett's first novel. After an opening with a touch of Catholic-like mythology, Rose narrates her leaving her husband in 1968, without telling him she's pregnant. She doesn't give a reason, and he hasn't done anything wrong other then be really dull. But Rose takes the car, leaves San Diego and drives east for Habit, Kentucky and a Catholic home for unmarried pregnant women. That's part one. Son Abbott narrates part 2 and Rose's daughter narrates part 3.

Rose is the subject of this book. She is somehow mysterious without really being mysterious. Her voice is strong, showing Patchett's power of clarity (for the first time). That makes Part one really good. There is psychological drama, literary games, Catholic themes and subversive themes. There's a lot going on. When the narrator switches, the book loses much of this dynamic, becomes just a story. It's not bad, and I wasn't tempted to bail. But the remaining 2/3 of the book felt a lot like a very very long epilogue.

A few extra notes. Patchett has some significant autographical elements here. She herself did runoff from a marriage. As did her mother, in a way, leaving southern California for Nashville, TN somewhere in the vicinity of 1968, when Patchett was young (but very much born).
I'm glad I read Patchett's first novel. I enjoyed it and I like having had a chance to get this window into her early writing.

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  dchaikin | Nov 12, 2023 |
When Rose discovers she’s pregnant, she knows that she needs to get out of her marriage. She doesn’t love her husband or want to be married anymore and she doesn’t want to be a mother either. She sets off from California to Kentucky for a home for unwed mothers. She doesn’t tell her husband or her mother she’s pregnant or where she’s going – lies. She tells the nuns at the home that her husband died – a lie. Soon the lies are piling up.

I dug deep into my TBR shelves for this book. I loved Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House and have been meaning to read more of her books. The Patron Saint of Liars, which is her first book, did not disappoint. Patchett is a master of character development. I liked how each of the main characters had their own section in the book and their own unique voice. I felt like I knew them inside and out. ( )
  mcelhra | Jun 10, 2023 |
Well written but just ok
How we are all untrue to ourselves and others ( )
  evatkaplan | May 14, 2023 |
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This book is for my parents, Frank Patchett and Jeanne Wilkinson Ray, and my grandmother, Eve Wilkinson.
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Two O'clock in the morning, a Thursday morning, the first bit of water broke through the ground of George Clatterbuck's back pasture in Habit, Kentucky, and not a living soul saw it.
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You can't pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go. But at seventeen, I didn't understand, and so I left. (p. 207)
If people do have more than one life in a lifetime, they should be careful to make sure the different versions of the past never overlap. (p. 328)
... I'd tell them, missing people was a full-time job, being sorry about what was gone was going to take every waking minute now, so much time and energy... (p. 335)
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St. Elizabeth's is a home for unwed mothers in the 1960s. Life there is not unpleasant, and for most, it is temporary. Not so for Rose, a beautiful, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not unwed. She plans to give up her baby because she knows she cannot be the mother it needs. But St. Elizabeth's is near a healing spring, and when Rose's time draws near, she cannot go through with her plans, not all of them. And she cannot remain forever untouched by what she has left behind . . . and who she has become in the leaving.

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