Truth & Beauty in Around the World in 80 Books

Sep 03, 2019 Terri rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Feb 11, 2012 Ginger rated it really liked it

Truth and Beauty was full of conflicting thoughts for me. This book was beautiful, but sad. I couldn't put it down, but didn't want to finish. I first loved Lucy, and then was angry at her. A nonfiction from one of my favorite novelists. One of Ann Patchett's best.

(And P.S. I loved the first line: "The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.") ...more

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Jan 07, 2015 Meghan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: biography-and-memoir, poetry, us-new-york-nyc, education-school, east-coast, the-south, illness-and-aging, love-story-and-romance, women, art

Just read Lucy's sister's response to this book:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2004...

Hard to know what to think. The article is mean but comes from true grief as much as from effrontery. Do we have the right to claim back our family posthumously from the grip of friends who knew them better? Is blood really thicker than water?

When my grandmother died at 97, her multitudes of friends shared great stories and memories of her and I realized that she was the center of a great wheel with spokes i ...more

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