SUMMARY: With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II.The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, th
The patient one, a novel
β Scribed by Shepard Gray, Shelley
- Publisher
- Gallery Books
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 360 KB
- Edition
- First Gallery Books trade paperback edition
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Seven former best friends reunite and struggle to heal after the tragic death of one of their own in this evocative and heartrending novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Gift and Her Secret.
When word had gotten out that Andy Warner had committed suicide, everyone in Walnut Creek, Ohio, had been shocked. For seven men and women in their twenties, some Amish, some Mennonite, and some English, each of whom had once counted his or herself as one of Andy's best friends, it had been extremely painful.
And, maybe, a source of guilt.
Years have passed since they'd all been together last. Some of them got into trouble. A couple got into arguments. Eventually they all drifted apart. But even though none of them really saw each other anymore, there was a steadfast certainty that they'd always have each other's backsβeven when no one else did. Their bond was that strong...until Andy did the unthinkable.
Now the...
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