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Bel Canto (Paperback)

by Ann Patchett (Author)
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Perennial; Reprint edition (April 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0060934417
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060934415
  • Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13.5 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 302,586 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars If music be the food of love - bring on the terrorists!, 22 Jul 2009
By H. Carrick "Tallulah" (UK East Anglia) - See all my reviews
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Patchett's 'Bel Canot' is a surprising and brilliant read. The setting at the beginning of the novel is a swish party in a presidential house that is as palacial as the country it is situated in is decripid and delapidated.

Patchett cleverly matches the characters with their polar opposites in this tale of love, loss and opera. I'm not a massive fan of the opera but this plays like a comitragedy with many highs and some supreme lows...the characters are vivid in the language that Patchett uses and she writes very eloquently about the situation and it's participants.

I'm trying not to tell you what happens in this novel as it will kind of give the game away...suffice to say that the image at the beginning of the story is shattered to make way for an intrusive and belligerent group of freedom fighters...but what happens next has to be read to be appreciated and believed.

The relationships formed in the book come from hightened emotional states but all of them are full of truth and beauty...the final moments of the story and are truly sad...but don't read the epilogue...kind of ruins your image of everyone!

Wonderful...highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Bel Canto - all about love and passion, 19 Jun 2007
This review is from: Bel Canto (Hardcover)
This is one of the best books I have read for ages. Bel Canto is about love and passion, of every sort. Love of art, love of family, love of simple pleasures and the love between a man and a woman are all in this wonderful book. If you know nothing about opera it teaches you a bit about it through the characters which are excellently written. The love that grows between people who are thrown together through unexpected circumstances is written so brilliantly it surprised me I had never read this wonderful author before. Buy this book, you won't be disappointed!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliantly read story full of interesting characters., 25 April 2006
By G. E. Langridge (Surrey, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bel Canto (MP3 CD)
I listen to audio books while driving to work and of all the books I have heard so far this is undoubtedly the best.

The story is very much character-driven and the narrator captures the voices of all the different characters brilliantly. I felt as if I got to know them and care about them and I had a growing sense of loss as the story progressed that it would soon be over.

Parts of the story are more graphic than I would normally like, for example in describing the treatment of an injury. But I found that I couldn't bring myself to skip past that section as I had to know what happened to the characters.

I did not want the story to finish and I found the final ending slightly disappointing. This did not spoil the experience for me though as the whole story is still very much alive in my memory.

It is now several months since I listened to the discs. In the meantime I have listened to other stories and forgotten them but this one stays with me. I can't recommend it highly enough.
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