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Title	:	The Patron Saint of Liars
Author	:	Ann Patchett
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2003 by HarperCollins Publishers (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literary Fiction

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Since her first publication in 1992, celebrated novelist Ann Patchett has crafted a number of elegant novels, garnering accolades and awards along the way. Now comes a reissue of the best-selling debut novel that launched her remarkable career. St. Elizabeth's, a home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky, usually harbors its residents for only a little while. Not so Rose Clinton, a beautiful, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not unwed, and stays. She plans to give up her child, thinking she cannot be the mother it needs. But when Cecilia is born, Rose makes a place for herself and her daughter amid St. Elizabeth's extended family of nuns and an ever-changing collection of pregnant teenage girls. Rose's past won't be kept away, though, even by St. Elizabeth's; she cannot remain untouched by what she has left behind, even as she cannot change who she has become in the leaving.

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Original Title:	The Patron Saint of Liars
ISBN:	1841150509 (ISBN13: 9781841150505)
Edition Language:	English

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I have mixed feelings about this particular Patchett novel. I didn't want to put it down but I wasn't happy when I finished.I was totally sucked in by the story's opening but then the tone changed and the character depth faded a bit. The turmoil the main character feels is never discussed once she finds her way to St. Elizabeth's, yet it drives the remainder of the novel. Just as the story picks up steam again, it's over. Given the story line and the characters I thought the story could have

Rose, a young wife in 1968, realizes that she does not want to be married on the same day she learns that she is pregnant. So, she gets into her car and drives across the country to a lovely home for unwed mothers without even a note to her husband. Soon it is clear that she possesses a quiet strength and a gift for cooking that the nuns who run the home, the fatherly handy-man and the other girls come to rely on. But, the quiet strength is a wall behind which to hide who she is. The novel is

ON SALE TODAY FOR $2.99.... get it if you like darkish, quirky characters where lies (obviously, as in the title) play their own role.It's been forever since I read this, so forgive the short shrift. The story is set primarily at a home for unwed mothers out in the countryside. Nuns run the show with the help of a groundskeeper and others who are as important to the story as the girls who spend several emotional months here, delivering life and then leaving.Hiding pregnancy and hiding paternity

Not up to par with the other novels by one of my favorite authors, but an compelling, and believable story with interesting characters. disappointing conclusion.

I hate books like this. Ones that start out so promising, and then crap out halfway through. Like they get lost in the swirl of it all and then just flush themselves down the toilet in despair. At it's most basic, The Patron Saint of Liars is about leaving. The blurb on the back cover of the novel is misleading. It makes it seem like Rose is the main character, when in fact, we lose touch with her halfway through, when she becomes a shadow of the character we've been reading about for 165 pages.

Ann Patchetts debut novel, The Patron Saint of Liars, is a beautifully written story about people, secrets, and lies. The books title intrigued me; Patron Saint of Liars a conflict between virtue and dishonesty. Patchetts writing is quiet and compelling as she shares the story of Rose Clinton, and how her lies affected her life and the lives of those around her. After three years of marriage, Rose Clinton finds herself pregnant. Unsatisfied with her life, and questioning her love for her

The story of Rose, a habitual abandoner, who finds herself in a home for unwed mothers in the 1960s. The story is about the place almost as much as the people--a place where people come for a brief, but life-altering, time and then move on. It is also the story of the people who stay there--Rose, with all her secrets, her daughter, the nuns and the groundskeeper. I loved the story of the place and I thought the writing was quite good. It held my interest and there were a few really lovely