The Patron Saint of Liars
by:
Ann Patchett (author)
St. Elizabeth's is a home for unwed mothers in the 1960s. Life there is not unpleasant, and for most, it is temporary. Not so for Rose, a beautiful, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not unwed. She plans to give up her baby because she knows she cannot be the mother it needs....
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St. Elizabeth's is a home for unwed mothers in the 1960s. Life there is not unpleasant, and for most, it is temporary. Not so for Rose, a beautiful, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not unwed. She plans to give up her baby because she knows she cannot be the mother it needs. But St. Elizabeth's is near a healing spring, and when Rose's time draws near, she cannot go through with her plans, not all of them. And she cannot remain forever untouched by what she has left behind ... and who she has become in the leaving.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060540753 (0060540753)
Publish date: March 1st 2003
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
I bought the Kindle edition of this book. Since her first publication in 1992, celebrated novelist Ann Patchett has crafted a number of elegant novels, garnering accolades and awards along the way. Now comes a reissue of the best-selling debut novel that launched her remarkable career. St. Elizab...
I'm becoming a big Ann Patchett fan!!
Not good at all. Mostly because I really disliked the main character, Rose. The writing is fine, the story paces fine I guess. I don't "get" it. I only finished it because I wanted to know if what I thought would happen would indeed happen.
an amazing debut novel about growing up, finding oneself and the power of healing. it is well written and filled with unforgettable characters.
Ann Patchett's The Patron Saint of Liars was, by all accounts, a stunning debut, a story of a women who, married for three years, found herself pregnant, and instead of simply telling her husband and carrying on with her life, flees to a home for unwed mothers. The story is told from the point of vi...
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