Book
Commonwealth
Record details
- ISBN: 0062491792 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780062491794 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
322 pages ; 24 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
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| Subject: | Family secrets Fiction |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
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- 5 of 5 copies available at Kenton County.
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| Covington Branch | PATCH A (Text) | 33126020197814 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Covington Branch | PATCH A (Text) | 33126021815281 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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| Erlanger Branch | PATCH A (Text) | 33126025094792 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Independence Branch | PATCH A (Text) | 33126025094784 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
- Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2016 April #1
In this new novel by the beloved New York Times best-selling Patchett, Bert Cousins arrives uninvited at Franny Keating's christening party, recalling Sleeping Beauty's bad fairy and wreaking just as much havoc. He ends up kissing Franny's mother, Beverly, an act that eventually puts paid to both their marriages and joins the Cousins and Keating children in one big, genuinely affectionate bunch who look askance at their parents. When an adult Franny reveals her family's backstory to famed author Leon Posen, he turns it into a must-read book, which forces the siblings to reevaluate their lives together. With a 500,000-copy first printing and a 22-city tour.
[Page 69]. (c) Copyright 2016 Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2016 September #1
Bert Cousins, a deputy DA in Southern California, takes a break from the claustrophobia of his home (three kids, including a baby, and a pregnant wife) and crashes the christening party for Franny, the baby of Fix Keating, a cop he barely knows. By the end of the day, drunken Bert has kissed Keating's beautiful wife, Beverly, thus setting in motion five decades of the two families reconstituting a time or two. The six children form uneasy bonds with one another and their various imperfect parental figures. Franny unwittingly blows open the heart of these messy alliances when a chance meeting with Leo, a famous, much older author, leads to a long love affair and a betrayal when Leo writes a blockbuster version of Franny's life story, made more raw by the death of one of her stepbrothers. VERDICT Award-winning author Patchett brings humanity, humor, and a disarming affection to lovable, struggling characters who soldier on with decency despite the handicaps of their disrupted childhoods. Irresistible. [See Prepub Alert, 3/7/16.]âBeth Andersen, formerly with Ann Arbor Dist. Lib., MI. Copyright 2016 Library Journal.