TY - BOOK AB - Recalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew. AB - "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 acuity, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most acclaimed literary talents working today" -- AU - Patchett, Ann, CN - PS3566.A7756 ET - First edition. ID - 1483051 KW - Mothers and daughters KW - Actors KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Storytelling KW - Theatrical companies KW - Reminiscing KW - Homecoming KW - Orchards KW - Love KW - Parents KW - Mères et filles KW - Acteurs KW - Relations entre hommes et femmes KW - Art de conter KW - Troupes de théâtre KW - Souvenir KW - Retour au foyer KW - Vergers KW - Parents KW - Actors. KW - Love. KW - Man-woman relationships. KW - Mothers and daughters. KW - Parents. KW - Storytelling. KW - Mother-daughter relationship KW - Fruit culture KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Actors N2 - Recalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew. N2 - "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 acuity, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most acclaimed literary talents working today" -- SN - 9780063327528 SN - 006332752X T1 - Tom Lake :a novel / TI - Tom Lake :a novel / ER -