strong >ANN PATCHETT is the author of seven novels, The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft, The Magician's Assistant, Bel Canto, Run, State of Wonder, and Commonwealth. She was the editor of Best American Short Stories, 2006, and has written three books of nonfiction, Truth & Beauty, about her friendship with the writer, Lucy Grealy, What now? an expansion of her graduation address at Sarah Lawrence College, and, most recently, This is the Story of a Happy Marriage, a collection of essays. Tom Hanks is an award-winning actor, producer and director. One of only two actors in history to win back-to-back Best Actor Academy Awards, Hanks has starred in over 40 films, including Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Cast Away, Big and Philadelphia. With his production company, Playtone, Hanks has produced several award-winning TV series including John Adams, Band of Brothers and Olive Kitteridge. In 2013, he garnered multiple award nominations for his Broadway debut in Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy. Hanks has received the AFI's Lifetime Achievement Award, the Kennedy Center Honor, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
"The Dutch House has the richness, allusiveness, and
emotional heft of the best fiction."--Boston Globe
"Patchett's splendid novel is a thoughtful, compassionate
exploration of obsession and forgiveness, what people acquire,
keep, lose or give away, and what they leave behind."--Publishers
Weekly (starred review)
"...this richly furnished novel gives brilliantly clear views into
the lives it contains."--Kirkus Reviews (starred
review)
"The Dutch House is a big-hearted, capacious
novel..."--Chapter 16
"The Dutch House is unusual, thoughtful and oddly
exciting, as well-told domestic dramas can be."--Columbus Dispatch
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