Bel Canto
eBook - 2009
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Winner of the Orange Prize • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist"Bel Canto is its own universe. A marvel of a book." —Washington Post Book WorldNew York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett's spellbinding novel about love and opera, and the unifying ways people learn to communicate across cultural barriers in times of crisisSomewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening—until a band of gun-wielding terrorists takes the entire pa...rty hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, a moment of great beauty, as terrorists and hostages forge...
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- Published
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HarperCollins
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Online Access
- Overdrive Resource Page
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- Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
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File Size | 1 GB |
ISBN | 9780061738883 |
Release Date | 3/17/2009 |
Kindle Book | |
ISBN | 9780061738883 |
ASIN | B000FC10S4 |
Release Date | 3/17/2009 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
ISBN | 9780061738883 |
Release Date | 3/17/2009 |