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Summary
Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto, examines her deepest commitments-- to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband-- creating a resonant portrait of her life. Full description
Table of Contents:
- Nonfiction, an introduction
- How to read a Christmas story
- The getaway car : a practical memoir about writing and life
- The sacrament of divorce
- The Paris match
- This dog's life
- The best seat in the house
- My road to Hell was paved
- Tennessee
- On responsibility
- The wall
- Fact vs. fiction
- My life is sales
- "The love between the two women is not normal"
- The right to read
- Do not disturb
- Introduction to "The Best American Short Stories 2006"
- Love sustained
- The bookstore strikes back
- This is the story of a happy marriage
- Our deluge, drop by drop
- Dog without end
- The mercies.