Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
by Ann Patchett
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Author: Ann PatchettEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-04-05
ISBN: 0060572159
Number of pages: 257
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Book Review: A Lesbian-Like Romance
Summary: 1 Stars
Ann and Lucy were infatuated with each other. As graduate students at the University of Iowa, they lived together in an intense,passionate relationship. True, they both saw men, but what is the reader to make of Lucy crawling into bed with Ann, leaping into her arms, sitting on her lap, and(endlessly) asking her if she "loves her best." Is this a platonic friendship?
Although the L word doesn't pop up in this book,I think it's reasonable queston to ask----and a reasonable question for any reader of this memoir. what exactly was the nature of their relationship? Why did Lucy never marry? Why did Ann end her marriage after a few years of trying it out? Why did they never quite lose their sense of intimacy?
Ann doesn't answer many of these questions---or glosses over them as if they would not even occur to the reader. At first I thought she was just a novelist trying to write in an unfamiliar medium. Then I wondered if she had something to hide. I still don't know.
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