How does Ann Patchett get us to buy in these wildly improbably stories -- and not have them seem wildly improbable at all? Here's a passage that I thinks speak to my question:"She had a good imagination as a child, thought it had been systemically chipped apart by years of studying inorganic chemist...
I am adding this not b/c the topic draws me, but b/c I have read the author's book Bel Canto and thought the writing was excellent. I did read another one too about her ill friend, the title of which escapes me. Kirkus says this new one is as good as Bel Canto. Is it really? YAY for new books on Kin...
Mistah Kurtz, he dead, well, Mr. Eckman anyway. At Minnesota-based Vogel pharmaceuticals, weeks-old news of bio-researcher Anders Eckman’s Amazonian demise leads the company to send another scientist to find out what happened, and to complete Eckman’s charge. He had been sent to determine the statu...
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