Truth and Beauty : A Friendship

Ann Patchett and the late 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. In Grealy’s critically acclaimed memoir, Autobiography of a Face, she wrote about losing part of her jaw to childhood cancer, years of chemotherapy and radiation, and 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 winters of the Midwest, to surgical wards, to book parties in New York. Through love, fame, drugs, and despair, this is what it means to be part of two lives that are intertwined . . . and what happens when one is left behind.This is a tender, brutal book about loving the person we cannot save. It is about loyalty, and being lifted up by the sheer effervescence of someone who knew how to live life to the fullest.

ANN PATCHETT

Biographies & Memoirs

4th Estate

Bel Canto

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Harper

Xbel Canto Pb

Harper Collins Promotion

Literary

Fourth Estate

Fourth Estate Ltd.

Bel Canto - Advance Reading Copy

Humor & Entertainment

HarperCollins, Publishers

<p>Special feature: This PerfectBound e-book contains our exclusive interview with Ann Patchett. Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of a powerful Japanese businessman. A famous American opera diva entertains the international guests. It is a night out of a fairytale -- until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario turns into something quite different -- as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds... people from different countries and continents become compatriots... and passionate, ill-fated love blooms upon this unlikely soil.</p>

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DONNA TARTT

MADELINE MILLER

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

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