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Bel Canto
Contributor(s): Patchett, Ann (Author)

ISBN: 0060188731 ISBN-13: 9780060188733
Publisher: Harper

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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2001
Annotation: From the bestselling author of "The Magician's Assistant" comes a marvelous novel of love, opera, and terrorism set in South America. Two couples, complete opposites, fall in love; sexual identities become confused; and a horrific imprisonment is transformed into an unexpected heaven on earth.

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical - General
- Fiction | Sagas

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 00053671

Lexile Measure: 930(Not Available)

Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6" W x 9.4" L (1.10 lbs) 336 pages

Themes:
- Cultural Region - Latin America

Features: Price on Product

Awards: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, Winner, Fiction, 2002
National Book Critics Circle Award, Nominee, Fiction, 2001
PEN/Faulkner Award, Winner, Fiction, 2002
Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize, Nominee, Fiction, 2002

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/15/2001 pg. 148
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2001 pg. 531
Publishers Weekly 04/16/2001 pg. 42
Entertainment Weekly 06/08/2001 pg. 70
New Yorker (The) 06/18/2001 pg. 164
Booklist 06/01/2001 pg. 1848
Library Journal 07/01/2001 pg. 125
People Weekly 09/10/2001 pg. 51
Best of Book Sense/First 5 Yrs 04/01/2004 pg. 1
Booksense '76 Reading Grp 04 05/01/2004 pg. 1
Library Journal 02/15/2001
New Yorker (The) 10/01/2007 pg. 98
People Weekly 10/01/2007 pg. 59
Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2008 pg. 102
People Weekly 06/13/2011 pg. 61

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 155131
Reading Level: 6.3 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 19.0

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:

A major motion picture starring Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe.

"Blissfully Romantic....A strange, terrific, spellcasting story." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"Bel Canto...should be on the list of every literate music lover. The story is riveting, the participants breathe and feel and are alive, and throughout this elegantly-told novel, music pours forth so splendidly that the reader hears it and is overwhelmed by its beauty." --Lloyd Moss, WXQR

"Glorious." --The New Yorker

Ann Patchett's award winning, New York Times bestselling Bel Canto balances themes of love and crisis as disparate characters learn that music is their only common language. As in Patchett's other novels, including Truth & Beauty and The Magician's Assistant, the author's lyrical prose and lucid imagination make Bel Canto a captivating story of strength and frailty, love and imprisonment, and an inspiring tale of transcendent romance.

Contributor Bio(s): Patchett, Ann: -

ANN PATCHETT is the author of seven novels and three works of nonfiction. She is the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, England's Orange Prize, and the Book Sense Book of the Year, and was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She is the co-owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee, where she lives with her husband, Karl, and their dog, Sparky. annpatchett.com.

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