Энн Пэтчетт — библиография

Новый роман американской писательницы Энн Пэтчетт напоминает сказку братьев Гримм, разросшуюся до масштабов семейного эпоса. История главных героев, Дэнни Конроя и его сестры Мэйв, охватывает всю вторую половину ХХ века, а их судьбы оказываются роковым образом переплетены с Голландским домом – особняком на востоке Пенсильвании, когда-то принадлежавшим разорившейся династии нидерландских магнатов Ванхубейков. Сам по себе Голландский дом не населен призраками, но каждый, кто переступает его порог, в каком-то смысле становится призраком дома – куда бы он потом ни отправился, где бы впоследствии ни жил, повсюду носит с собой этот образ. У…

It is 1968. Rose Clinton arrives at St Elizabeth’s, a Roman Catholic home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky. Rose has fled her dull but loving husband without telling him she is pregnant and has decided to be ‘a liar for the rest of my life’. As penance, she has also abandoned her widowed and much loved mother, with no mention of her condition.
Rose plans to give her baby up because she knows she cannot be

Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving, possessive and ambitious father. As the former Mayor of Boston, Bernard Doyle wants to see his sons in politics, a dream the boys have never shared. But when an argument in a blinding New England snowstorm inadvertently causes an accident that involves a stranger and her child, all Bernard Doyle cares about is his ability to keep his children, all his children, safe. Set over a period of 24 hours, Run takes us from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard to a home for retired Catholic priests in downtown Boston. It shows us how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexist only blocks apart from one another, and how family can include people you've never even met. As in her best selling novel Bel Canto, Ann Patchett illustrates the humanity that connects disparate lives, weaving several stories into one surprising and endlessly moving narrative. Suspenseful and stunningly executed, Run is ultimately a novel about secrets, duty, responsibility, and the lengths we will go to protect our children.

At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by Cyril’s son Danny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly acerbic and self-assured Maeve, are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from and find that all they have to count on is one another. It is this unshakeable bond between them that both saves their lives and thwarts their futures. Set over the course of five decades, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past. Despite every outward sign of success, Danny and Maeve are only truly comfortable when they’re together. Throughout their lives they return to the well-worn story of what they’ve lost with humor and rage. But when at last they’re forced to confront the people who left them behind, the relationship between an indulged brother and his ever-protective sister is finally tested.

Однажды воскресным вечером помощник прокурора Альберт Казинс оставил дома жену и детей и, захватив бутылку джина, отправился к Фрэнсису Китингу – коллеге, которого почти не знал, на вечеринку, на которую его никто не звал. Альберт не собирался целовать Беверли, жену хозяина, – все случилось само собой. Но это событие в результате разрушило два брака и навсегда изменило жизни четырех взрослых и шестерых детей.
В одном из лучших своих романов мастер глубокой психологической прозы Энн Пэтчетт рассказывает о том, как складывались их судьбы на протяжении последующих пятидесяти лет.

Доля випадково звела Беверлі Кітінґ та Берта Казенса. Заради нього вона покинула колишнього чоловіка-поліціянта і, вже маючи двох маленьких доньок від першого шлюбу, стала матір’ю для чотирьох дітей Берта. Минає час, і вже дорослі діти обох сімейств покидають батьківський дім, вирушаючи на пошуки власного щастя. Одна з дочок, Френні, закохується у молодого письменника, який хоче написати роман про родину Кітінґ-Казенс… Кохання і зрада, слава і безталання, розкіш і злидні – які ще випробування зустрінуть на своєму шляху батьки й діти?

Приглашенные на светский прием гости с нетерпением ждали появления всемирной знаменитости - певицы Косc. Ее чарующий голос заворожил всех. Но прекрасный вечер был неожиданно прерван - в зал ворвались вооруженные террористы. С этого момента для всех участников драматических событий началась другая жизнь, а весь мир сузился до размеров одного зала...

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 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.