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

ISBN: 0061565318 ISBN-13: 9780061565311
Publisher: Harper Perennial

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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2008
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Annotation: A novel that is as lyrical and profound as it is unforgettable, "Bel Canto" engenders in the reader the very passion for art and the language of music that its characters discover. "A strange, terrific, spellcasting story."--"San Francisco Chronicle."

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Additional Information

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

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 00053671

Lexile Measure: 930(Not Available)

Series: P.S.

Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" L (0.75 lbs) 352 pages

Themes:
- Cultural Region - Latin America

Features: Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian

Accelerated Reader Info

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

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award - Winner of the Orange Prize - National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

Bel Canto is its own universe. A marvel of a book. --Washington Post Book World

A beautifully designed Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition of Ann Patchett's spellbinding novel about love and opera, and the unifying ways people learn to communicate across cultural barriers in times of crisis.

Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening--until a band of gun-wielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, a moment of great beauty, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different continents become compatriots, intimate friends, and lovers.

Patchett'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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