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Ann Patchett has not rushed to follow up her breakthrough novel, "Bel Canto" (2001), which promoted her from private to major in the embattled ranks of literary novelists. Before "Bel Canto," she had been admired but obscure, a veteran of academic postings and the grant wars. Her arresting, elegant thriller cast a hostage crisis in a nameless Latin-American capital as an operatic illustration of the well-known truism that captives and captors tend, as the days of mutual exposure draw on, to develop solidarity with one another. Patchett's customarily benign view of human nature took on global import within the besieged mansion of a Peru-like nation's Vice-President. A ...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Bauers, Sandy September 5, 2001 700+ words
...s first two novels, "The Patron Saint of Liars" and "The Magician...change quickly. Her latest, "Bel Canto," is pushing the limits...95. But in this format "Bel Canto" only costs $19.95...Amazon.com also offers "Bel Canto" as a Microsoft Reader download...
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- News wire article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) September 4, 2001 700+ words
...s first two novels, "The Patron Saint of Liars" and "The Magician...change quickly. Her latest, "Bel Canto," is pushing the limits...95. But in this format "Bel Canto" only costs $19.95...Amazon.com also offers "Bel Canto" as a Microsoft Reader download...
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...018873-1 FROM HER FIRST NOVEL, The Patron Saint of Liars (1992), Ann Patchett has...turns charming and cloyingly banal. Bel Canto is also about people in love in unusual...for the delightful entertainment that Bel Canto represents. Elizabeth Powers New York
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- Magazine article from: Library Journal Ives, Nancy R. November 1, 2001 700+ words
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 8 cassettes. unabridged. 12 hrs. HarperAudio. 2001...with the hopeless intensity found in many opera plots. Patchett (The Patron Saint of Liars) balances terrorism, love, and music nicely here. Anna Fields...
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Patchett. Ann. Bel Canto. HarperCollins. 2001. 304p. ISBN 0-06-018873-1. $25...for this reviewer, a story that failed to ignite. Patchett (The Patron Saint of Liars) generates little tension as she moves her players around...
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...and though the musical theme is deftly integrated, this book may have a harder time catching readers' interest than did Patchett's first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars, Positive critical response should attract attention, however.
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