Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
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Tom Lake
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Meryl Streep
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction
Publisher's Summary
THIS SUMMER, DIVE INTO TOM LAKE – A BREATH-TAKING NOVEL FROM ANN PATCHETT
This is a story about Peter Duke who went on to be a famous actor. This is a story about falling in love with Peter Duke who wasn’t famous at all. It’s about falling so wildly in love with him – the way one will at twenty-four – that it felt like jumping off a roof at midnight. There was no way to foresee the mess it would come to in the end.
It’s spring and Lara’s three grown daughters have returned to the family orchard. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the one story they’ve always longed to hear – of the film star with whom she shared a stage, and a romance, years before.
Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents lead before their children are born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart.
©2023 Ann Patchett (P)2023 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Great author, great narrator!
I always enjoy books by Ann Patchett. She gets right inside each character and really makes them come to life. I particularly enjoyed the inside look on the dynamic of a mother with children in their 20s. Having Meryl Streep narrate was wonderful. How does she move so rapidly between characters and pull them off so differently? They are so believable and it feels like it’s playing out right in front of me. Fabulous!
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