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These Precious Days
- Narrated by: Ann Patchett
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Bloomsbury presents These Precious Days by Ann Patchett.
An irresistible collection of essays and memoir from the internationally best-selling, Women’s Prize-winning author of The Dutch House.
'Any story that starts will also end.' As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth as she explores family, friendship, marriage, failure, success and what it all means.
Ranging from the personal - her portrait of the three men she called her fathers; unexpectedly falling into a life-changing friendship with Tom Hanks; how to answer when someone asks why you don’t have children - to the sublime - exploring the Harvard Museum of Natural History before its doors open; the unexpected influence of Snoopy; the importance of knitting - each essay transforms the particular into the universal, letting us all see our own worlds anew.
Illuminating, penetrating, funny and generous, These Precious Days is joyful time spent in the company of one of our greatest living authors.
Critic Reviews
"Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature." (Guardian)
"One of my top favourite contemporary writers. I don’t think that there’s a book of hers that I haven’t put down at the end and been haunted by for weeks after." (Gillian Anderson)
"Few novelists today combine such a forensic eye with an acute and humane understanding of human nature. I would read Ann Patchett’s shopping list." (Jojo Moyes)
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- Pranjuli
- 11-10-23
Beautiful
This was actually my introduction to Ann Patchett and it feels like I have found someone that shares my soul, my heart, my mind. I know I will be reading everything by her and will keep returning to this collection time and time again in the future. Just *chef's kiss* !
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- Rudrani Banerjee
- 29-03-22
Will keep coming back to this for years to come!
Please give the gift of Ann Patchett's essays to yourself and others and life will feel infinitely better, even if it is just for a moment.
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