{"id":131451,"date":"2023-08-19T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=131451"},"modified":"2023-08-18T18:04:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T23:04:36","slug":"do-tell-a-conversation-with-ann-patchett-and-lindsay-lynch-sunday-august-20-2023-400-pm-at-off-square-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/do-tell-a-conversation-with-ann-patchett-and-lindsay-lynch-sunday-august-20-2023-400-pm-at-off-square-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Tell: A Conversation with Ann Patchett and Lindsay Lynch, Sunday, August 20, 2023, 4:00 pm at Off Square Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Please help Square Books <\/strong>welcome bestselling author Ann Patchett<\/strong> and Lindsay Lynch<\/strong> for their new novels. The two authors will be in conversation Sunday, August 20, 2023 at 4:00 pm at Off Square Books<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Ann\u2019s Book<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America\u2019s finest writers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPatchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature.\u201d \u2014The Guardian<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the spring of 2020, Lara\u2019s three daughters return to the family’s orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom Lake<\/em><\/a> is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tom Lake<\/em><\/strong>
By Ann Patchett
$30.00
Publisher: Harper
ISBN: 9780063327528<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Lindsay\u2019s Book<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A scintillating, page-turning novel: \u201cThere is little more alluring than the promise of secrets, and Do Tell<\/em><\/a> is full of them\u2013glamorous, tawdry, and human. A rich portrait of the lives of early Hollywood’s beautiful puppets and those holding their strings.\u201d \u2013Emma Straub, New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDo Tell<\/em><\/a> illuminates issues of fame and notoriety as relevant now as they were almost a century ago.\u201d \u2013Geraldine Brooks, New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of Horse<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As character actress Edie O’Dare finishes the final year of her contract with FWM Studios, the clock is ticking for her to find a new gig after an undistinguished stint in the pictures. She’s long supplemented her income moonlighting for Hollywood’s reigning gossip columnist, providing her with the salacious details of every party and premiere. When an up-and-coming starlet hands her a letter alleging an assault from an A-list actor at a party with Edie and the rest of the industry\u2019s biggest names in attendance, Edie helps get the story into print and sets off a chain of events that will alter the trajectories of everyone involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now on a new side of the entertainment business, Edie\u2019s second act career grants her more control on the page than she ever commanded in front of the camera. But Edie quickly learns that publishing the secrets of those former colleagues she considers friends has repercussions. And when she finds herself in the middle of the trial of the decade, Edie is forced to make an impossible choice with the potential to ruin more than one life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Debut novelist Lindsay Lynch brings the golden age of Hollywood to glittering life, from star-studded opening nights to backlot brawls, on-location Westerns to the Hollywood Canteen. Through Edie’s wry observations, Lynch maps the intricate networks of power that manufacture the magic of the movies, and interrogates who actually gets to tell women’s stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Do Tell<\/em><\/strong>
By Lindsay Lynch
$28.00
Publisher: Doubleday
ISBN: 9780385549370<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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