Tom Lake

Resumen del libro

This is a story about Peter Duke who went on to be a famous actor. This is a story about falling in love with Peter Duke who wasn t famous at all. It s about falling so wildly in love with him the way one will at twenty-four that it felt like jumping off a roof at midnight. There was no way to foresee the mess it would come to in the end. It s spring and Lara s three grown daughters have returned to the family orchard. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the one story they ve always longed to hear of the film star with whom she shared a stage, and a romance, years before.

Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents lead before their children are born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart.

Biografía del autor

Ann Patchett es autora de varias novelas, obras de no ficción y libros infantiles. Ha recibido numerosos galardones, entre ellos el PEN/Faulkner, el Women's Prize for Fiction y el Book Sense Book of the Year. Su novela "La Casa Holandesa" fue finalista del Premio Pulitzer. Su obra se ha traducido a más de treinta idiomas. La revista TIME la nombró una de las 100 personas más influyentes del mundo. Vive en Nashville, Tennessee, donde es copropietaria de la librería Parnassus Books.<br> <br> También disponible de Ann Patchett en AdN: "Comunidad" y "La Casa Holandesa".