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Run
by Ann Patchett
from Harper

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Just couldn't get into this book
  I have read other works by Ann Patchett and enjoyed them, but Run left me as cold as the wintery environment in which it is set. It is the story of a Boston politician who has two adopted African American sons, and what happens after they inadvertently discover their birth mother and biological sister. The characters were well drawn but their story did not engage me as I had hoped it would and it was a real slog to get to the unsatisfying ending of the book. I would Patchett's prior novel Bel Canto or her... more info

• Too much too soon
  The action promised to be tight, with an accident kickstarting a chain of events over the next 24 hours that threatens to blow former mayor Bernard Doyle's pastiched family apart.
  Patchett aims for a commentary on the social and racial divide, albeit in a self-conscious and obvious manner. The Doyles are a mixed-race-single-parent family, with the requisite white (black sheep) son, Sullivan, and two black adopted sons, Tip and Teddy, whom foster dad has political ambitions for.
  The author also... more info

• Ann Patchett can do better than this!
  I really enjoyed Patron Saint of Liars and Bel Canto. This book was interesting and I liked the potential of the characters. I found Uncle Sullivan tedious at times and Tip too when he'd go on and on about fishes - but there are people like that - I just don't want to read a detailed account of his obsession.
  I still enjoyed the book. I liked Kenya, Teddy, and Tennessee. While some coincidence is fine, this book seemed ridiculously full of them. The book was fairly fast-paced and I wouldn't rave about... more info

• Connections and ties
  I somehow had missed the publication of this book, but since I have never disliked an Ann Patchett novel, (which I can't say about every author I read) I decided to pick it up and give it a try. Found this to still be true and found Run to be a very satisfying novel. Patchett has such a good way about her. Once again, she drew me in and kept me there, for the bleak and cold 24 hours in the life of the Doyle family. The descriptions and inner workings were as good as Bel Canto, but the pace was a bit more... more info

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