Run
Edition: P.S. edition
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: October 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780061340642
Subjects: Adopted children -- Family relationships -- Fiction.; Adoption -- Fiction.; Bereavement -- Fiction.; Family secrets -- Fiction.; Birthmothers -- Fiction.; Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction
First sentence: Bernadette had been dead two weeks when her sisters showed up in Doyle's living room asking for the statue back.
Description: It's a winter evening in Boston and the temperature has drastically dropped as a blizzard approaches the city. On this fateful night, Bernard Doyle plans to meet his two adopted sons, Tip the older, and more serious and Teddy, the affectionate dreamer, at a Harvard auditorium to hear a speech given by Jesse Jackson. Doyle, an Irish Catholic and former Boston mayor, has done his best to keep his two sons interested in politics, from the day he and his now deceased wife became their parents, through their childhoods, and now in their lives as college students. Though the two boys are African-American, the bonds of the family's love have never been tested. But as the snow begins to falls, an accident triggers into motion a series of events that will forever change their lives.

This is at its very center, a novel about what truly defines family and the lengths we will go to protect our children. As she did in her bestselling novel Bel Canto, Patchett beautifully weaves together seemingly disparate lives to show how intimately humans can connect. Stunning and powerful, Run is sure to engage any Patchett fan and bring her even more admirers.
Notes: Includes issue of P.S. (16 p.) with information on and an interview with the author.
Table of contents: label: Chapter 1
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter 2
pagenum: 17; label: Chapter 3
pagenum: 41; label: Chapter 4
pagenum: 73; label: Chapter 5
pagenum: 93; label: Chapter 6
pagenum: 125; label: Chapter 7
pagenum: 157; label: Chapter 8
pagenum: 191; label: Chapter 9
pagenum: 213; label: Chapter 10
pagenum: 249; label: Chapter 11
pagenum: 281; label: P.S.
pagenum: 1; title: About the Author
pagenum: 2; title: Meet Ann Patchett
pagenum: 2; title: About the Book
pagenum: 4; title: A Conversation with Ann Patchett
pagenum: 4; title: "OBAMA 2012"
pagenum: 11; title: Read on
pagenum: 13; title: Have You Read? More by Ann Patchett
pagenum: 13