Ann Patchett

What begins in terror

by Keith Taylor

posted 9/1/2003

Ann Patchett's 2001 novel Bel Canto found a massive audience, but it did so in a very interesting way. Patchett had been publishing regularly for more than a decade and was critically respected for the quiet craft of her three earlier novels. Like most interesting writers, she had her particular themes. In her case it was how disparate people with nothing

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