02411cam a2200421 i 4500 1006839339 TxAuBib 20231010120000.0 230719s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780063347724 large print, paperback $34.00 0063347725 large print, paperback $34.00 (OCoLC)1390747363 TxAuBib rda Patchett, Ann, author. Tom Lake : a novel / Ann Patchett. First Harper Large Print edition. New York, NY : Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] 452 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Series statement from hardcover edition of title. In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew. Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today. 20231010. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Actors Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Storytelling Fiction. Homecoming Fiction. Parents Fiction. Love Fiction. Large type books. Large print books. Michigan Fiction. Domestic fiction. fast Romance fiction. fast Novels.