Ann Patchett

Truth & Beauty

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What happens when the person who is your family is someone you aren't bound to by blood? What happens when the person you promise to love and to honor for the rest of your life is not your lover, but your best friend? In Truth & Beauty, her frank and startlingly intimate first work of nonfiction, Ann Patchett shines a fresh, revealing light on the world of women's friendships and shows us what it means to stand together.
Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writers' Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work was. In her critically acclaimed and hugely successful memoir, Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy wrote about losing part of her jaw to childhood cancer, the years of chemotherapy and radiation, and then the 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. 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 book shows us what it means to be part of two lives that are intertwined.
This is a tender, brutal book about loving a person we cannot save. It is about loyalty, and about being lifted up by the sheer effervescence of someone who knew how to live life to the fullest.
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279 printed pages
Publication year
2009
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  • Frenchegirlshared an impression4 years ago
    🚀Unputdownable

    Love the book. Sometimes I wonder what else the author can cope with being a friend with such an outstanding person. I read the book very quickly because it was so exciting to observe these deep and intimate relations, some kind of soul connection.

  • thalia de andashared an impression6 years ago
    💞Loved Up

Quotes

  • María José Evia H.has quoted2 years ago
    he world is saved through deeds, not prayer, because what is prayer but a kind of worry?
  • María José Evia H.has quoted2 years ago
    . I was stunned by the rawness of her pain. I came to understand that night in the sports bar, safe from the blinding rain, that I could not worry about Lucy anymore. I knew then it was just too enormous for me to manage and that worrying about her would swamp me
  • María José Evia H.has quoted2 years ago
    Lucy tried constantly to find and fully participate in any joy that was available to her, but still she was pulled into scorching bouts of depression

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