The Patron Saint of Liars, (Paperback)

from pennsylady

io 11 discs In the 1960's we find St Elizabeth, a castle like former hotel, now a home for unwed mothers, in Habit Kentucky. "Unanticipated pregnancy makes liars out of young women .... as they try to rationalize, explain, and accept what is happening to them. The illusive Rose Clinton arrives. S...

from auntieknickers

Ann Patchett's first novel, published when she was 29, is not your typical autobiographical first effort. Although I don't think it is quite as successful as her later work, it is still a very good book.Except for a brief opening chapter about the novel's setting, the whole book is told in first ...

from CarmenMilligan

This was a pleasurable book to read. The writing was robust and clever. I can see why Patchett has so much buzz about her right now. I found the book to be easy to read and hard to put down.However, keeping me from giving this one 5 looks was the character around whom all others revolved: Rose. I...

from suedonym

This book grabbed me; it was a book where the kid got to watch more tv and the dog went in the crate, because I was immersed and wanted to keep reading. Two-thirds of the way through, I would have given it 4 1/2 stars, but I found the ending unsatisfying -- in an unfinished sense, not because I d...

from stevesmits

The novel is the author's debut work in 1992 and reveals the quality her later works will continue. It is the story of Rose, a young woman growing up in California with her single mom in the 1960's. Rose is close to her mother and admires her beauty and style. She has little memory of her father ...