EAN: 9780062666437

ANN PATCHETT - GEBRAUCHT COMMONWEALTH A NOVEL -...

One Sunday afternoon in Southern California  Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's
christening party uninvited. Before evening falls  he has kissed Franny's mother  Beverly?thus
setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. Spanning
five decades  Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of
the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia  the Keating
and Cousins children forge a lasting bond based on a shared disillusionment with their parents
and the strange and genuine affection that grows among them. When  in her twenties  Franny
begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family  the story
of her siblings is no longer hers to control. Their childhood becomes the basis for his wildly
successful book  ultimately forcing them to come to terms with their losses  their guilt  and
the deeply loyal connection they feel for one another. Told with equal measures of humor and
heartbreak  Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration  interpretation  and the ownership of
stories. It is a brilliant and tender tale of the far-reaching ties of love and responsibility
that bind us together.

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