5/27/2023 0 Comments Commonwealth patchett summary![]() ![]() We will get to know “Franny” as she and the novel grow up. She keeps dialogue to a minimum and lets actions speak for themselves.įix Keating, a cop, is married to a great beauty, the uncalculatedly seductive Beverly: “Strands of yellow hair had come loose from her French twist and were falling into her eyes.” Her baby, for whom the party is ostensibly being thrown, is named Frances. ![]() Patchett is light, incisive and all-seeing. ![]() Virginia Woolf and Ernest Hemingway are literature’s showiest party-throwers but this Californian party has form too. To write about any party, you need to be a multitasker. The opening is a show stopper – an overview of a christening party. Every extended family is happy – and unhappy – in its own way. It is a story in which nothing is a given and graftings do not always take. Commonwealth is an outstanding novel by Ann Patchett – winner of the Orange prize for Bel Canto and author of State of Wonder – in which two family trees intertwine. ![]()
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