NYT Bestseller

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"Blissfully romantic....A strange, terrific, spellcasting story." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"Bel Canto...should be on the list of every literate music lover. The story is riveting, the participants breathe and feel and are alive, and throughout this elegantly-told novel, music pours forth so splendidly that the reader hears it and is overwhelmed by its beauty." --Lloyd Moss, WXQR

Ann Patchett's award winning Bel Canto balances themes of love and crisis as disparate characters learn that music is their only common language. As in Patchett's other novels, including Truth & Beauty and The Magician's Assistant, the author's lyrical prose and lucid imagination make Bel Canto a captivating story of strength and frailty, love and imprisonment, and an inspiring tale of transcendent romance.

Author: Ann Patchett
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper
Published: 05/22/2001
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.1lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.00w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780060188733

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.3
Point Value: 19
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 155131 / Bel Canto


Award: 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee - Fiction
Award: 2002 Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize Nominee - Fiction
Award: 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award Winner - Fiction
Award: 2002 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Winner - Fiction


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/15/2001 pg. 148
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2001 pg. 531
Publishers Weekly 04/16/2001 pg. 42
Entertainment Weekly 06/08/2001 pg. 70
New Yorker (The) 06/18/2001 pg. 164
Booklist 06/01/2001 pg. 1848
Library Journal 07/01/2001 pg. 125
People Weekly 09/10/2001 pg. 51
Best of Book Sense/First 5 Yrs 04/01/2004 pg. 1
Booksense '76 Reading Grp 04 05/01/2004 pg. 1
Library Journal 02/15/2001
New Yorker (The) 10/01/2007 pg. 98
People Weekly 10/01/2007 pg. 59
Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2008 pg. 102
People Weekly 06/13/2011 pg. 61

About the Author
Patchett, Ann: -

ANN PATCHETT is the author of eight novels, four works of nonfiction, and two children's books. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the PEN/Faulkner, the Women's Prize in the U.K., and the Book Sense Book of the Year. Her most recent novel, The Dutch House, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. TIME magazine named her one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where she is the co-owner of Parnassus Books.