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In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America's finest writers. "Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature."?The Guardian In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew. Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.… (meer)
Roman over drie dochters die terugkeren naar het ouderlijk huis in het noorden van Michigan. Hun moeder vertelt over een kortstondige romance uit haar verleden. Dit dwingt de dochters om hun mening over haar en over zichzelf in een ander licht te zien ( )
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For Kate DiCamillo
who held the lantern high
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That Veronica and I were given keys and told to come early on a frozen Saturday in April to open the school for the Our Town auditions was proof of our full reliability.
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“Everything leads to the next thing.”
And that is the difference between us: I was very good at being myself, while Nell is very good at being anyone at all.
"It's terrifying," she says quietly, and now I see the tears in her eyes. "The idea that in order to get to do this thing you really, really want, you might be told you have to do the exact thing you'd never want to do."
Secrets are at times a necessary tool for peace.
There is no explaining this simple truth about life: you will forget much of it.
We clump together in our sorrow. In joy we may wander off in our separate directions, but in sorrow we prefer to hold hands.
The stories that are familiar will always be our favorites.
...a path I know to look for only because I've come this way a thousand times. It's like stepping into a book, one turn and everything changes...
A child's ability to misunderstand is limitless, even when she is no longer a child.
Or maybe they are children looking at their parents and so our lives began when they began and everything else they they colored in with fat crayons any way they wanted.
I had the range of a box turtle. I was excellent, as long as no one moved me.
“…you can't save them that won't save themselves.”
No summer girlfriend ever changed the course of a movie star's life.
She stayed with me after the rest of them had faded, maybe because we remember the people we hurt so much more clearly than the people who hurt us.
I look at my girls, my brilliant young women. I want them to think I was better than I was, and I want to tell them the truth in case the truth will be useful. Those two desires do not neatly coexist, but this is where we are in the story.
Funnily enough, this turned out to be the thing that saved me: the knowledge that I could get back by myself.
Good marriages are never as interesting as bad affairs.
The past need not be so all encompassing that it renders us incapable of making egg salad. p253
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Where would he be in the world except with his brother, here with us?
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America's finest writers. "Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature."?The Guardian In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew. Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.
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