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Loading... Run: A Novelby Ann Patchett
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This is one of those cases where the extra half-star would have helped. Were I feeling more generous, I'd have given it the benefit of the 4-star doubt. Alas, the novel's structure felt a bit *too* coincidental, and just too many characters seemed to exist to get the plot from point A to point B. Not what I'd normally read, but the Tournament of Books beckons. (  ) theanalogdivide | Dec 1, 2009 |  This is one of those cases where the extra half-star would have helped. Were I feeling more generous, I'd have given it the benefit of the 4-star doubt. Alas, the novel's structure felt a bit *too* coincidental, and just too many characters seemed to exist to get the plot from point A to point B. Not what I'd normally read, but the Tournament of Books beckons. ( )  theanalogdivide | Dec 1, 2009 | This is one of those cases where the extra half-star would have helped. Were I feeling more generous, I'd have given it the benefit of the 4-star doubt. Alas, the novel's structure felt a bit *too* coincidental, and just too many characters seemed to exist to get the plot from point A to point B. Not what I'd normally read, but the Tournament of Books beckons. ( ) theanalogdivide | Dec 1, 2009 | I liked the way the presumtions in this book developed the characters. How what we believe to be true often is the only reality we need. I also enjoyed the irony of how people can live just a few blocks from one another and never know the connected to each other. On the other hand, I did find the book a bit too coincidental and not all the story lines were filled out as much as I'd like. For example the story of the statue seemed like it could have been developed better. (  ) Cailin | Nov 29, 2009 | Intriguing premise of mother who gives up her two boys who are adopted into an upper middle class white family. She spends their entire lives living close enough to watch them grow up. Her friend died and "Tennessee" changes her name and raises her daughter. The mother ends up dying and all three children grow up in the white family. (  ) laurie_library | Oct 27, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving, possessive, and ambitious father. As the former mayor of Boston, Bernard Doyle wants to see his sons in politics, a dream the boys have never shared. But when an argument in a blinding New England snowstorm inadvertently causes an accident that involves a stranger and her child, all Bernard Doyle cares about is his ability to keep his children—all his children—safe.
Set over a period of twenty-four hours, Run takes us from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard to a home for retired Catholic priests in downtown Boston. It shows us how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexist only blocks apart from each other, and how family can include people you've never even met. As in her bestselling novel Bel Canto, Ann Patchett illustrates the humanity that connects disparate lives, weaving several stories into one surprising and endlessly moving narrative. Suspenseful and stunningly executed, Run is ultimately a novel about secrets, duty, responsibility, and the lengths we will go to protect our children.
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