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Collection: Adult Fiction
Call Number: F Patchett
Author: Patchett, Ann
Title: Commonwealth
Remainder of title: a novel
Summary, etc. note: "The acclaimed, bestselling author--winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize--tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly--thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond that is based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows up between them. When, in her twenties, Franny begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story of her siblings is no longer hers to control. Their childhood becomes the basis for his wildly successful book, ultimately forcing them to come to terms with their losses, their guilt, and the deeply loyal connection they feel for one another. Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration, interpretation, and the ownership of stories. It is a brilliant and tender tale of the far-reaching ties of love and responsibility that bind us together"--

International Standard Book Number: 9780062491794 (hardcover)
Canceled/invalid ISBN: 9780062566874 (large print)
Description conventions: rda
Authentication code: pcc
Classification number: PS3566.A7756
Item number: C66 2016
Edition number: 23
Classification number: 813/.54
Source of number: bisacsh
Classification number: FIC045000
Classification number: FIC043000
Classification number: FIC019000
Relator term: author.
Statement of responsibility, etc.: Ann Patchett.
Edition statement: First edition.
Place of publication: New York ,NY
Name of publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date of publication: 2016
Projected publication date: 1609
: New York :
: Harper,
: [2016]
Extent: 322 Pages
: rdacontent
: text
: txt
: rdamedia
: unmediated
: n
: rdacarrier
: volume
: nc
Summary, etc. note: "Commonwealth is the story of two broken families and the paths their lives take over the course of 40 years, through love and marriage, death and divorce, and a dark secret from childhood that lies underneath it all"--
: Provided by publisher.
: Provided by publisher.
Source of acquisition: B & T /Copy 2 donated 7/18
Purchase price: 27.99/ Pbk. $16.99
Source of heading or term: bisacsh
Source of heading or term: bisacsh
Source of heading or term: bisacsh
Subject: Family secrets
Subject: Family Life
Subject: Coming of Age
Form subdivision: Fiction.
Genre/form data or focus term: Domestic fiction.
Main entry heading: Patchett, Ann, author.
Edition: First edition.
Place, publisher, and date of publication: New York : Harper, [2016]
Display text: Online version:
Title: Commonwealth
Record control number: (DLC) 2016037734
International Standard Book Number: 9780062491817
: Acquire
: 1 shelf copy
: policy default
: HAND CARRY -- NEEDED FOR CONGRESSIONAL LOAN; PLS CONTACT amgo, x72445 / scar, x7717 2016-09-01
: xk15 2016-08-12 (telework)
: xk15 2016-08-12 ONIX (telework) to CIP;
: Gina Forsythe; phone: 212-207-7057; email: gina.forsythe@harpercollins.com; bc: gina.forsythe@harpercollins.com

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