Run
by Ann Patchett
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Author: Ann PatchettEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-07-29
ISBN: 0061340642
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Book Review: 24-hour story
Summary: 4 Stars
The 24-hour period covered in the story (about the length of time that elapsed from start to finish for me) makes for a "real-time" and fast-paced plot. Draws you in and keeps you reading.
Boston is slammed to a standstill by an unexpected snowstorm, just as a car accident plunges the Doyles into the mind-boggling puzzle of their past. Animation is suspended in the city while the family discovers and sorts out their ties with Tennessee and her young daughter Kenya. It's intriguing that in the end, the reader is the only one who knows the whole truth.
Other reviewers have questioned the plausibility of some of the plot's turns. How did Beverly pull off her identity change, for instance? She managed it because, just as none of the police or ambulance people were concerned enough to find out if Kenya had anywhere to go after the accident or to assist Tip, lying in the snow, no one was paying attention when two black women melted into one.
My only quibbles are with the Boston geography and weather. Why would you have to go past Mass. General on the way from the Back Bay to Mt. Auburn hospital? And Pachett should have made the temperature lower than 20 degrees on the sunny day after the snow storm to warrant all the fuss about the arctic conditions.
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