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"A loving testament to the work and reward of the best friendships, the kind where your arms can't distinguish burden from embrace." â?? People
New York Times Bestselling author Ann Patchett's first work of nonfiction chronicling her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy.
Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writer's Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work. In Gealy's critically acclaimed and hugely successful memoir, Autobiography of a Face, she wrote about losing part of her jaw to childhood cancer, years of chemotherapy and radiation, and endless reconstructive surgeries. In Truth & Beauty, the story isn't Lucy's life or Ann's life, but the parts of their lives they shared together. This is a portrait of unwavering commitment that spans twenty years, from the long cold winters of the Midwest, to surgical wards, to book parties in New York. Through love, fame, drugs, and despair, this is what it means to be part of two lives that are intertwined...and what happens when one is left behind.
This is a tender, brutal book about loving the person we cannot save. It is about loyalty and being uplifted by the sheer effervescence of someone who knew how to live life to the fullest.… (meer)
joaldo: I recommend reading Autobiography of a Face first, then Truth and Beauty. Autobiography of a Face should be enjoyed for what it is, without being in some way 'tainted' by the harsher view of Lucy's friend, Ann Patchett. Reading Ann's book next will then give the reader a completely different perspective on the poet herself, her work, and on their friendship.… (meer)
Een bijzonder boek over de vriendschap / liefde tussen Ann Patchett en haar vriendin Lucy Grealy. Lucy's gezicht is verminkt door een ziekte, ze lijdt aan hevige pijnen. ( )
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The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.
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We were a pairing out of Aesop's fable, the grasshopper and the ant, the tortoise and the hare. And sure, maybe the ant was warmer in the winter and the tortoise won the race, but everyoe knows that the grasshopper and the hare were infinitely more appealing animals in all their leggy beauty, their music and interesting side trips. (p. 20)
What she wanted was love, and the best way to go looking for it was through sex. (p. 41)
Writing is a job, a talent but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon. (p. 62)
The process of putting the thing you value most in the world out for the assessment of strangers is a confidence-shaking business even in the best of times. (p. 63)
There is no single experience in my life as a writer to match that moment, the blue of the sky and the breeze drifting in form the bay. I had done the thing I had always wanted to do: I had written a book, all the way to the end. (p. 86)
From the other side of a glass window we watched the doughnuts roll down the conveyer belt and then drop into the boiling channel of oil where they bobbed, little doughy life preservers, and then were scooped up and rolled through the wall of liquid sugar. They came steadily, in a slow and orderly fashion, sailing off on a higher belt, rounding the corner out of sight. The life cycle of doughnuts was enormously comforting. (p. 213)
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Biography & Autobiography.
Family & Relationships.
Nonfiction.
HTML:
"A loving testament to the work and reward of the best friendships, the kind where your arms can't distinguish burden from embrace." â?? People
New York Times Bestselling author Ann Patchett's first work of nonfiction chronicling her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy.
Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writer's Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work. In Gealy's critically acclaimed and hugely successful memoir, Autobiography of a Face, she wrote about losing part of her jaw to childhood cancer, years of chemotherapy and radiation, and endless reconstructive surgeries. In Truth & Beauty, the story isn't Lucy's life or Ann's life, but the parts of their lives they shared together. This is a portrait of unwavering commitment that spans twenty years, from the long cold winters of the Midwest, to surgical wards, to book parties in New York. Through love, fame, drugs, and despair, this is what it means to be part of two lives that are intertwined...and what happens when one is left behind.
This is a tender, brutal book about loving the person we cannot save. It is about loyalty and being uplifted by the sheer effervescence of someone who knew how to live life to the fullest.
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